Annotated Bibliography
The official website for Duke Ellington was very helpful because it contained many specific things about Duke Ellington Since the whole website was about him it was very easy to find information. I liked how you could navigate with the bars at the top. One annoying thing was the advertisements that got in the way at times.
The official website for Ella Fitzgerald was very helpful because the whole website was dedicated to her. It was also very easy to navigate. I liked how it had her biography and a separate section for quotes made by her.
The Good Reads website was extremly helpful when it came to finding quotes from people. It had quotes in books, not just on the internet. I really liked that it was easy to find what book or magazine the quote came from. I used The Jazz Book, a very informative book on the evolution of jazz "from ragtime to the 21st century." It was set up in a readable way, although there was a lot of information and most of it i didn't end up using.
I found a really good website to help me with time lines. It gave a timeline from 1900-2000 plus. It was simple and to the point. It also didn't give too much detail, just enough to get the info out and the point across. To really get the full feel of all the different music in the 90's is a hard thing to fit into one website. The People History website really was helpful. It gave music info on all the popular styles of music; not just one or the other. Music History was good because it had allot about styles of music, and composers at the time. I really didn't like the site because it was really hard to operate. When you went to one page you had to keep hitting the back button to get back to home. Also the background and side designs were obnoxious and distracting.
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Jazz was also an easy site to use because it was dedicated to jazz. It also had a "jazz artist encyclopedia" where you could look up any jazz artist and find details about them. One thing I didn't like, was there were little makes all over the page when you looked up an artist which was annoying.
The Advent of the Radio was a helpful site while I was comparing access to music from the 20th to the 21st century. It had exact facts which was helpful and it had comparisons of cost to get a good idea of what it would cost now. One thing I didn't like was the color scheme. it was hard to read the text.
The webpage that helped me quite a bit with the 90's music things was the 90's 411 page. This site contains literally everything about the 90's. From fashion trends to events and important things that happened then. The site has everything you'll ever need to know about the 90's. A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers gave very helpful information on the two singers from the 20th century we wrote about. It was easy to read, informative and funny. There was not too much information and I really enjoyed reading what was there.
VH1 was a good site to use for music because it contained many things about styles of music from around the mid- 80's forward. It also had a list of artists from A-Z that you could look on to see music videos, interviews and a biography.
MTV was good site to use, I could conveniently type in the name of the artist I was researching and there would be many articles that would come up about him/her. You could look for videos, articles, news stories, and photos about the person.
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