With a wild combination of free jazz and hard bop elements, mixed with a variety of percussion instruments, electronic keyboards
, synthesizers, and traditional jazz instruments, the Art Ensemble of Chicago became one of the most unique ensembles to emerge out of the avant-garde scene in the late 1950s. True or false?
Explanation: The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the 1960s. The ensemble combines many jazz styles, plays many instruments and incorporates various forms of percussion. The musicians wear costumes and face paint while performing to represent all peoples of the world. These characteristics combine to make the ensemble's performances both aural and visual.
Members of what was to later become the Art Ensemble performed together under various band names and all the musicians could play multiple instruments. While playing in Europe in 1969, about five hundred musical instruments were used.
The Haitian Revolution has often been described as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere. Slaves initiated the rebellion in 1791 and by 1803 they had succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony.
Answer: If we abolish The Electoral College the election would be decided by Florida, the East Coast and the West Coast. Liberals would win every time with the big cities.
The German government was presented with a massive bill after World War I. This crippling debt load caused Germany to near collapse and many see a direct line between the punitive economic sanctions and the rise of the Nazi parti.
