1.3) Contextual Introduction Born in Dakar in the year 1945, Mbaye is an artist Senegalise contemporary painter, sculptor and art teacher. ... Tourists are known to have a major influence on Mbaye's work as he resides in the "Village des Artes", a large space with 50 studios set aside especially for artists by the Senegalese government in 1998 in order to give the people of the country a chance at the global contemporary art scene and to have them continue the tradition of unique Senegalese art (McKinley, 2003). ... Chapter Three: Art Historical Context In this chapter I want...

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Furthermore a people's culture is expressed through its works, whether it be in politics, literature, athletics, or art. Art is a unique form of expression because humans can directly play on three of the human senses, sight, taste, and hearing. ... Music is the art of sound that pleasures hearing and it has been in existence since humans have aurally communicated with each other. ... Jazz was a perfect combination of its predecessors because it was "Ragtime carried over Harmony and orchestration with the same musical sprit and tradition [as Ragtime]," (Locke 160). and it had the "improv...

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American-born composers generally went to Europe to perfect their craft. Eventually, American-born composers realized they were facing a dilemma: much of the music and art they were producing from the English past was alien to Americans of non-English background. ... A very diversified popular art was developing. ... He was deft at the art of mixing and fading one record into another without missing a beat in the interchange. ...

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