MUSICAL achievements of a prominent music artist

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Your research paper will be formatted as follows:

Double spaced, proofed and 1500-2500 words. College-level writing is expected, and you will proof for grammar and spelling. Any grammatical and/or spelling errors in excess of 3 will AUTOMATICALLY
have 1 point deducted for each error! You will cite at least 4 sources for your paper, at least 2 of which must be from a source other than the internet. You will provide a full bibliographical
entry for each source, including url where appropriate, as well as properly footnoting or endnoting all quoted material.

Each research paper will tell the reader the following:

Who/what were the major musical influences on the artist(s) in question and why? Give specifics and elaborate. Example: Bebop saxophone genius Charlie Parker was greatly influenced by the
harddriving blues-drenched Kansas City swing of the 1930s as exemplified by Jay McShann and Count Basie. As well, he garnered technical inspiration from the virtuosity of Jimmie Dorsey, the great
saxophonist, and melodic guidance from the smooth and horizontal stylings of Lester Young.

What was/were the major musical innovations of the artist. Example: Charlie Parker, who along with Dizzy Gillespie, invented the radical new form of jazz known as bebop, created a muscular synergy
of Kansas City Blues, breakneck tempos, complex jagged and dissonant harmony and a powerful and unusual rhythmic sense. These innovations made him the most widely imitated saxophonist the world had
known.

Who did the artist influence? Example: The list of Charlie “bird” Parker’s disciples encompasses almost all of the jazz world that came after him, including alto saxophonist Sonny Stitt, tenor man
Sonny Rollins, the aptly named “little bird” Jimmy Heath, avant gardist Ornette Coleman, and Charles Mingus’ saxophonist Eric Dolphy. Trumpeter Miles Davis’ lean and spare style was a direct
reaction to trying to follow the astonishing pyrotechnics of Parker. As bassist Mingus pungently observed: “if charlie parker was a gunslinger, there’d be a whole lot of dead copycats.”

Give a context for the socio-economic structure in which the artist lived and worked, with brief biography of his/their formative years and what the conditions were under which the music was
created. Example: Charlie Parker, growing up in a profoundly racist country where Blacks lived in defacto apartheid, was acutely aware of the double life he led as a man of genius playing a highly
complex and innovative music for an indifferent and even contemptuous mainstream culture.

What I want is the above, clearly and effectively laid out. I have little interest in the People Magazine/National Enquirer aspects of any artist’s life except insofar as it directly affected the
music. For instance, the Beatles’ experimentation with drugs and meditation directly shaped the music they made. Elvis Presley’s induction into the army was directly correlant with his decline as a
significant rock and roll artist. Eminem’s rage at his mother is directly reflected in his rap lyrics. In these cases, it is relevant to the music. James Brown’s legal troubles, on the other hand,
had no evident reflection in his musical development so would not be relevant to a paper on his music.

You may choose from any of the following artists for your term research paper. There is no limit on how many students can do one artist, and you may enjoy comparing notes and research with each
other:

ANI DIFRANCO

ARETHA FRANKLIN

ART TATUM

ARTIE SHAW

B.B. KING

BEATLES , THE

BENNY GOODMAN

BERRY GORDY

BESSIE SMITH

BILL EVANS

BILL MONROE

BILLIE HOLIDAY

BING CROSBY

BOB DYLAN

BOB WILLS

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

BUDDY HOLLY

CAB CALLOWAY

CAETANO VELOSO

CARTER FAMILY

CELIA CRUZ

CHARLES MINGUS

CHARLIE PARKER

CHUCK BERRY

COLE PORTER

COLEMAN HAWKINS

COUNT BASIE

DIZZY GILLESPIE

DUKE ELLINGTON

EARTH, WIND AND FIRE

ELLA FITZGERALD

ELTON JOHN

ELVIS COSTELLO

ELVIS PRESLEY

ERIC CLAPTON

FATS WALLER

FRANK SINATRA

FRANK ZAPPA

GEORGE GERSHWIN

GILBERTO GIL

HANK WILLIAMS

HERBIE HANCOCK

HOWLING WOLF

IRAKERE

IRVING BERLIN

JAMES BROWN

JAMES TAYLOR

JANIS JOPLIN

JELLY ROLL MORTON

JIMI HENDRIX

JOBIM

JOHN COLTRANE

JOHN LENNON

JONI MITCHELL

LEADBELLY

LED ZEPPELIN

LESTER YOUNG

LITTLE RICHARD

LOS VAN VAN

LOU REED

LOUIS ARMSTRONG

LOUIS PRIMA

MADONNA

MICHAEL JACKSON

MILES DAVIS

MILTON NASCIMENTO

MUDDY WATERS

NEIL YOUNG

NIRVANA

OTIS REDDING

PAUL MCCARTNEY

PAUL SIMON

PFUNK

PINK FLOYD

POLICE

PRINCE

PUBLIC ENEMY

QUINCYJONES

RAY CHARLES

ROBERT JOHNSON

ROLLING STONES, THE

SAM COOKE

SARAH VAUGHAN

SCOTT JOPLIN

SEX PISTOLS

SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE

STANLEY BROTHERS

STEELY DAN

STEPHEN FOSTER

STEPHEN SONDHEIM

STEVIE WONDER

THE SUPREMES

THELONIUS MONK

TITO PUENTE

W.C. HANDY

WAYNE SHORTER

WEATHER REPORT

WHO, THE

WILLIE NELSON

WOODY GUTHRIE