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Continued Exploration

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  The Flintstones March 22, 2021 I chose another television show. This is one of my favorite cartoons The Flintstones. It doesn't get old. My husband and I can watch it over and over. These two friends living together make me wish I can live right next door to my childhood friend. I miss my bestie!! The Flintstones  is an American animated sitcom  produced by Hanna-Barbera   Productions.   The series takes place in a romanticized Stone aged  setting and follows the activities of the title family, the Flintstones, and their next-door neighbors, the Rubbles (who are also their best friends) who live in stone houses next door to each other. It was originally broadcast on ABC f rom September 30, 1960, to April 1, 1966, and was the first animated series to hold a  slot on television.  The Flintstones  was the most financially successful and longest-running network animated television series for three decades, until   The Simpsons  which debuted in late 1989, outlasted it.  In 2013, TV G

Music and the Fictive Dream

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  The Golden Girls March 21, 2021 The Golden Girls  is an American television sitcom  created by Susan Harris  that originally aired on NBC  from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes, spanning seven seasons. The show stars Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and  Estelle Getty  as four older women who share friendship and a home in Miami, Fl  It was produced by Whitt/Thomas/Harris Productions  in association with Touchstone television. Paul Junger Witt,  T ony Thomas,  and Harris served as the original executive producers. Thank you for Being a Friend  was written by Andrew Gold and released on February 1, 1978. Seven years after it was a hit song it became the theme song for NBC sitcom The Golden Girls. Cynthia Fee sang this song for the tv version. As it states in song facts "" This breezy song embodied the Southern California sound of the late '70s - Gold said he was in his "Brian Wilson phase" when he wrote it.

Role of the Performer

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  Marc Brown & The Blues Crew Born into a family of musicians, Marc Brown of Marc Brown & The Blues Crew was raised in Huslia, Alaska. He learned to play the guitar starting at age four and eventually joined his grandfather’s band, gathering a country gospel influence. Marc later studied at Berklee College of Music.  Throughout their more than 20-year career, Marc Brown & The Blues Crew opened for several big-name acts including ZZ Top and Jethro Tull. Their 10th album, Indian Rock’n’Roll, won them a 2011 Native American Music Award for Best Blues Recording and a nomination for Group Of The Year. Their latest album, “Still Got the Blues”, stays true to the band’s danceable blues sound.  Founded in 1993, the Blues Crew has mostly toiled away as a bar band but began making inroads into Native circles throughout the United States a little over a decade ago when Brown's brother, Harold "Buddy" Brown, served as president of  Tanana Chiefs Conference . This is one o

Musical Trip to Trinidad

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  Calypso    The musical trip I decided to take was to Trinidad. I was amazed at how the steel drums sounded and the rhythm just made you want to dance. Overall it made me feel like I was relaxing on a beach during these stressful times everyone is going thru.  I chose calypso for the style of music which is Afro- Caribbean   music  that originated in  Trinidad  in the 17th century . It was brought to the Caribbean Island from Africa when they brought in slaves to work on the sugar plantations. The slaves were taken away from their homes and families. They weren't allowed to communicate with each other so they sang to communicate.  Politicians, journalists, and public figures often debated the content of each song, and many islanders considered these songs the most reliable news source. The way the slaves communicated on the plantations is awesome and putting it into music. When reading the articles on calypso music that was what caught my eye and wanted to use it for my musical tr