This style was identified by its wide melodic leaps and its mild dissonance, which would have made it difficult to sing along with. However, it became distinctly American and was often used patriotically. This style theme is greatly evident in the score of The Best Years of Our Lives, written by Hugo Friedhofer, which is about veterans returning home from the war. Since the movie is about veterans, American Nationalism creates a strong patriotic mood in the scenes in which it is used. Another important film concerning the use of popular music is Laura, which was released in 1944.
Explain how it was used and where. When Europeans decided to come to America it wasn’t for nothing, there were motives that persuaded them to settle in America. They wanted a better life and when they came they did their best to take advantage of their surrounding resources of the colonies they resided in to produce different economic systems in the north south and middle colonies. During all of these there was indentured servitude and slavery in certain areas. The main motive that pushed the Europeans to migrate to America was the search of a better life, one free of troublesome, one with religious freedom and one that they can succeed in.
Great Britain, although officially neutral, had an elite opinion favouring the Confederacy and a public opinion favouring the United States. Concerned largely with Free Trade, diplomacy and the evasion of all-out war against America, Great Britain influenced and contributed to the outcome of the Civil War by utilising its powerful position to cleverly invest themselves in industrial aspects of the war, which proved beneficial to its relations with America as a whole. The reasons for the Civil War were copious and complex, but the motivation and direct cause of the secession revolved around the election of President Abraham Lincoln. With his inauguration came his policy to abolish slavery, which he
Americans wanted to save that very exceptional and desired “American Dream,” and the Depression was keeping thousands of Americans from doing that. So, did Americans change their values and dreams to end the Depression, or did they still want that sweet taste of their very own American Dream? Americans saw capitalism as a safe haven for this dream and with the end of the Depression, opportunities would come knocking. Roosevelt’s New Deal had attempted to save capitalism and essentially failed in the big picture, so was capitalism saving the American Dream, or was welfare state? Ultimately, Roosevelt changed the relationship between the capitalist market and the
If you were to ask a local American what songs are the most devoted to their nation, the most popular answers you received beside the national anthemn would most probably be “God bless America” and “This land is your land”. There is no doubt that these two songs have the same theme of patriotism, however when one take a deeper look into these, they may find that the two possess some distinctions that make them unique from one another. The differences may be in term of the background that the song was composed, the meaning of the lyric and who or what the lyric was addressing at that point of time. Here and now this essay will evaluate the similarities as well as the various differences between these 2 famous songs. In addition my personal experience when liestening to these songs.
He argued that social development studies showed changes in their social behaviors and their interactions once in their new environment. Thus, he concluded that the new society was uniquely America. He has a very valid argument, but I believe he could have maintained the strength of his argument while also including the fact that the American people coming from British roots, the Puritans, the Royalist elites, the North Midlanders of England and the North British and Irish were still unique as a sub-culture melded together by the choice for religious and economic freedom. The pursuit to own land and accumulate wealth, and not be under the rule of the crown was first and foremost in the early colonists minds. Fisher rests his entire point of view based on the roots of the four British folkways that separated the settlers in America.
Here he compares the way Americans get treated, “become men,” to the way Europeans become, “useless plants.” For Americans, “here they rank as citizens” and in Europe, “formerly they were not numbered in any civil list of their country, except in those of the poor.” Crevecoeur tries to get the reader to see that in America, people get treated with respect and are not “mowed down by want, hunger, and war.” Emotional appeal tends to connect to the reader more and helps communicate Crevecoeur’s passion. His use of words, “melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great change in the world,” makes the reader want to be apart of that and gets them to feel the emotion about changing the world. Crevecoeur’s use of rhetorical questions with diction, simile, and emotional appeal connect to the reader and let them have a better understanding of American, his passion toward it and why is so much better than any other country. He wants the reader to receive the full aspect of why he feels the way he feels and to persuade them to come to America and
This Compromise allowed California to become a state, gave Southern states specific slave rights, and organized many disputed territories. Clay spoke out against secession and warned that Civil War was imminent if states should choose to secede. Clay’s System consisted of three mutually reinforcing parts; a tariff to protect and promote American industry; a national bank to foster commerce; and federal subsidies for roads, canals, and other internal improvements to develop profitable markets for agriculture. James Monroe was also one who believed that internal change was necessary. He believed that the US needed an improved infrastructure, including a transportation network to grow and thrive economically.
The seminar was very opinionated by all who talked. The songs have different opinions about America and the seminar was informative on what other people around me believe the stereotypical American is like and what they think of what our country does. Some of the songs we herd in class were very patriotic in my opinion. “Proud to be an American” is an example of a patriotic song. When Lee Greenwood sings, “I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free.” , he is saying that being free is what he believes it means to be am American.
The government also wanted to produce a new visual culture to communicate its philosophy and objectives to the people of China. Artists were encouraged to create art that reflected the revolutionary spirit of the time, in Mao’s words, to create art for the people. The impact of this directive on artists and art making was massive. Oil painting in a socialist realist style substituted ink painting which had been one of the most admired art forms in China for over one thousand years as the ideal painting style. Revolutionary heroes, such as soldiers, workers, and peasants replaced traditional subjects such as birds, flowers, and landscapes.