The 5th Beatle

Why did The Beatles become so famous? Many people will answer because their songs are good. Then, who discovered their talent and made them famous? Many people may not know how to answer this question. This guy right here with a sunglasses is Brain Esptein. Brain was an English music entrepreneur and the manager of The Beatles. At the beginning, Brain paid for The Beatles to record demo songs in a studio. After the studio owner was not interested of the band, Brain tried so hard to persuade George Martin to listen it. Under his hard work, the English producer George Martin finally signed a contract with The Beatles. The way how Brain Esptein managed the band leaded the early success of The Beatles. Famous Beatles member Paul McCartney said that," If anyone was the fifth Beatle, it is Brain Esptein.

George Martin is often refereed to as"the Fifth Beatle". Under his hard work and wise management, Beatles album got twenty-three times number one hits. His achievement is considered one of the greatest record producers of all the time. Without George Martin and Brain Esptein's hard work, The Beatles would not have been the same band as it is now.

Here you can know more about George Martin

Sources:
http://www.george-martin.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Martin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Epstein

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Music Copyright Society Of China

     "Music copyright infringement in the People's Republic of China is widely regarded as one of the highest in the world" [1]. "With a large amount of copyright infringement online during the past decade, China's supreme governing body, the State Council of the People's Republic of China, has introduced streamlined regulations, effective July 1, 2007 that clarifies China's copyright lawregarding the liability of content and service providers involved in the distribution of unauthorized content"[2]. However, industry observers note that "in many Asian territories, enforcing bodies are understaffed, under funded and have little experience tackling piracy" [3].

         

    As for China, although there exists pirated music CDs, most stores are selling repring version of music CDs instead of purely fake copies. However, recently, those stores in China become harder and harder to survive in the market,because more and more people including myself chose to download music fron internet. There are several major reasons:
    1. Online music always updateds faster than other ways, such as the original legal CDs or the illegal CDs.
    2. Not all the songs in the album are what we like; therefore, for people who like a hugh variety of music would choose to download them from internet.

                  
   
   

     The above two pictures are some situations in china about "Shanzhai". Aren't they look similar?   "Shanzhai" means two objects look really similar, but the original one can not sue the other one, because they are not exactly the same, but this situation does comfuse cosunmers.


     Nevertheless, music market in China is still strong, and musicians get respected and earned from their works too. First, musicians' fans will always support them even they can download, or, they had downloaded music from internet, and that is what  I always do,too. Second, legal  version of musical works now in China, acutally, we can say most part of Asia, are hard to be copied illegally, and the illegal versions usually do not sell well, becuase, recent musical works have more things than simply music in the album. For example, they might have some little gifts accompanied with the legal albums;thus, the attraction grows a lot.

    China is a complicated market, but, I believe that the market will get healthier and healthier.

   Following is a vedio about copycatting of cellphone (iPhone 4 from apple and china)

   




Citation:

 [1]: "Recording Industry steps up campaign against internet piracy in China". http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20080204.html.
 [2]: Tew, Chris (2006-12-19). "Chinese Government promises to help fight online piracy". Web TV Wire. http://www.webtvwire.com/chinese-government-promises-to-help-fight-online-piracy/.
 [3]: Music Copyright infringement in the People's Republic of China. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_copyright_infringement_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China#cite_note-4

When we meet again someday

     "There was a girl who loved you，loving you from her heart
     She sometimes smiles because of you,
     She sometimes gries becuause of you.
   
     Your love to me was like a gust of wind,
     and her love to you was like bagging to a love miser .
     One day, will you love her?
     She  wanted your love, but all she could do was shouting your name inside her heart.
     This girl is still standing behind you,
     Do you know that? or, you knew it but just pretending that you do not."[1]


      "Probably,
      you won't answer even i ask you too many times that my throat is burned."[2]


      Started from today,
      Started from the day of my funeral,
      I will reborn without you,
      without a world with loneliness, darkness and self-deception.


      "If we accidentally meet someday in the future, that might be a kind of generosity. Because，
      by then, i will change my latitude of viewing out past, our present, and our future.
      by then, i will appreciate the system of our fates
     
       If we bump into each other someday in the future,
       you flexibly avoid my past of the miserable and old wound,
       then, the structure of our story will be no need to traced."[3]

      You occupied the "me" who is dead,
       and the new "me", will live confidently and unrependently.

                                          
    
    


         Click the citations, there will be songs and lyrics.
         
      
   


   

My game

This is 10% luck,
20% skill,
15% concentrated power of will,
5% pleasure,
50% pain,
And 100% reason to remember the name.[1]

Give me freedom, give me fire, give me reason, take me higher
See the champions, take the field now, unify us, make us feel proud
In the streets our head are liftin’, as we lose our inhibition,
Celebration it surrounds us, every nations, all around us

Sing in forever young, singing songs underneath that sun
Lets rejoice in the beautiful game.
And together at the end of the day.

WE ALL SAY, [2]

We are the champions and we'll keep on fighting till the end.
We are the champions
No time for losers
Cause we are the champions of the world.[3]


[1]- Fort Minor- Remember the name
[2]- 2010 World cup theme song Waving Flag
[3]- Queen- We are the Champion

Pulitzer Prize

In poetry class, we talked about lots of famous poet during the mid-20th century. Allen Ginsburg, Anne Sexton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg, they are all well known of their wonderful and awesome poem. Most of these poet didn't only have a great achievement as a poet, but also as a writer. On the other hand, most of them get the Pulitzer Price because of their achievement in writing.

So, what is the Pulitzer Prize? Actually, it is a award for achievement in newspaper,and journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. [1] This prize are awarded yearly and each winner will receive a certificate and US$ 10,000 cash award.

Joseph Pulitzer, the founder of Pulitzer Prize. He is a Hungarian-American, a newspaper publisher of the New York World. "Pulitzer introduced the techniques of "new journalism" to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s and became a leading national figure in the Democratic party.[2] In his will, he gave money to the Columbia University to start a journalism school and created the prize. He put in US$250,000 and the money was allocated to the prize and the scholarship. "He specified "four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one in education, and four traveling scholarships." After his death, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded June 4, 1917; they are now announced each April."[1]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize[1]

http://www.pulitzer.org/

http://nobelprizes.com/pulitzer/

The Romantic Movement

      "Changes in society, beginning in the 18th century and continuing into our own time, underlie the romantic movement. It starts as a reaction against the intellectualism of the Enlightenment, against the rigidity of social structures protecting privilege, and against the materialism of an age which, in the first stirring of the Industrial Revolution, already shows signs of making workers the slaves of machinery and of creating squalid urban environments" (The Romantic Movement)

       Unlike classicism or the baroque, romanticism has no definable standards. Indeed rejection of rules is almost a touchstone of the romantic temperament.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a book by the English poet and printmaker William Bake, one of the most predominant author in the Romantic Movement.

In my opinion, in the Romantic Movement, more people get to know and like arts and literatures, because before the Romantic Movement, arts and literatures are more about royal, authority, noble, and normal people do not get to know a lot or understand a lot about them. In the Romantice Movement, people were writing, painting with themes that are "natural"; thus, works during that period, people were more familiar to them, and therefore, they would have higher interest in knowing more about them, and even try to learn them. With more people getting involve in arts and literatures, the literacy level also went up.

     People at that time got to express their emotions and opinions in more ways, such as poetry, painting, music; therefore, in the Romantice Movement, the collision of ideologies was a catalyzer to the development and improvment of civilization.

Turner: Two women and a letter (The Yorck Project)

                      

                   



       Citation:

     The Romantic Movement:http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa73
    
     The Yorck Project: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

The Black Art Movement

      "The Black Arts Movement is the artistic branch of the Black Power movement. It was started in Harlem by writer and activist Amiri Baraka"(The Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School). "Time" magazine describes the Black Arts Movement as the 'single most controversial moment in the history of African-American literature-possibly in American literature as a whole' " (A Brief Guide to the Black Arts Movement).
      

 
     In my opnion, the Black Arts Movement encouraged all the black people to express their emotions, ideas and hopes through writing. Therefore, the society had a better sense about how necessary it is to treat black people equal to other races, becuase the strong eager and needs from them were not neglectable.

If I Were Jehovah, 1970
"This painting is a an assertive revision of African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar's most noted poem "We Wear the Mask." (link)As depicted in the work, the "mask" African Americans historically used to shield the depth of their emotions in a racist society is being ripped away in a full expression of outrage and determination" (Black Arts Movement)

    

Black Panther
     "The Black Panthers political philosophy was to articulate the basic desires and needs of the people and organize black people into having some kind of power position. They believed that politics was war without bloodshed. They advocated for an end to police brutality, decent housing, better employment and educational opportunities, and the freedom to determine the destiny of black people" (Black Arts Movement).

      
         
     Because of the Black Arts Movement, people had a different view and thought about the function and meaning of literature. People then started to communicate with others through words, and they got to express what they might not be able to speak out loud.
 
      Not only in literature, Black people also had chances to enhance their art culture, which they started developing the their music, dance, painting and poetry performances. Through all forms of art, they perfectly showed others their profound culture, civilization.


      "The founding principles of this new Black America created by the Black Arts Movement focused on black power, black economics, political success, and a restructuring of the community that had been destroyed by riots and police brutality. Instituting these principles was done by using literature, art, social institutions, and black activist groups as a channel" (Black Arts Movement).

           

          
     Citation:
1. Black Arts Movement. http://www.tcnj.edu/~fisherc/black_arts_movement.html
2. The Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School. http://www.umich.edu/~eng499/orgs/barts.html
3. A Brief Guide to the Black Arts Movement. http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5647