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Music Therapy For The Dyslexic Reader?
a: Jazz ~
b: Motor Oil for the dyslexic mind
What: Jazz is like the motor oil of your mind,
it makes all the parts slide with minimal friction.
A cognitive lubricant if you will. If you are dyslexic, reading while listening to Jazz improves your reading comprehension. This suggestion comes from Sally Shaywitz MD. She is a dyslexia researcher at Yale Medical school.
Useful?
Writer: mattyflynn
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Date: Aug 20 2009 10:38 AM
# 22 Critique Analogy
Jazz Is Like A Sky Scraper
a: Jazz ~
b: a sky scraper
What: They are similar because: "both art forms are eclectic, both are urban, both feature a rigid frame, which makes possible endless variation against the fixed form of the frame"
Useful?
Writer: Jay Mechling
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Date: Aug 18 2011 1:51 PM
# 1121 Critique Analogy
Jazz Is Like An Eternal Sub-text
a: Jazz ~
b: an eternal sub-text
What: "That's really, that's the generic text.But the sub-text is far more interesting and a lot more subtle and jazz is like an eternal sub-text, I think. It's very subtle and it's very, very subtle and very poignant." This is a fantastic interview about the origin of American music.
Useful?
Writer: Branford Marsalis
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Sep 11 2011 10:42 AM
# 1301 Critique Analogy
Jazz Is Like Liquid Architecture
a: Jazz ~
b: liquid architecture
What: "Jazz is like liquid architecture," said CCP Performing Arts Department head Chris Millado, who explained the music's vibrant appeal at a recent press con."
Useful?
Writer: Chris Millado
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Date: Sep 11 2011 10:47 AM
# 1314 Critique Analogy
Jazz Is Like A Sand Painting
a: Jazz ~
b: a sand painting
What: "He gives jazz, especially free jazz, new layers, colors, and sonorities. If jazz is like a sand painting, he's the dark layer at the bottom. If jazz has colors, he's the indigo blue and burnished bronze. A tuba changes the physical experience of hearing jazz."
Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
LCC: M
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Date: Sep 11 2011 10:50 AM
# 1315 Critique Analogy
Jazz Is Like A Sponge
a: Jazz ~
b: a sponge
What: "In 1949, in an interview in DownBeat magazine, I said, 'Jazz is like a sponge'," Brubeck remembers, down the phone line from Boston, where he's on a tour that includes three nights at New York's Blue Note jazz club. "I said, 'It's gonna pick up music from all over the world, and some day you might even hear a Chinese trumpet player'.
Useful?
Writer: Dave Brubeck
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Sep 11 2011 10:52 AM
# 1316 Critique Analogy
a: Jazz ~
b: Cool cerebral stuff
What:
Useful?
Writer: Someone on NPR
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Dec 2 2017 10:37 AM
# 11660 Critique Analogy
a: Jazz ~
b: Sounds like the taste of eating olives
Soccer And Jazz.....
a: Jazz singer ~
b: goalkeepers
What: "Jazz singers are like goalkeepers, their talents tend to mature later, after they've had a bit of match practice of one kind or another."The link is story about jazz singer Violet Leighton.
Useful?
Writer: Rob Adams
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Date: Jun 7 2013 7:11 PM
# 3299 Critique Analogy
METAMIA is a free database of analogy and metaphor. Anyone can contribute or search. The subject matter can be anything. Science is popular, but poetry is encouraged. The goal is to integrate our fluid muses with the stark literalism of a relational database. Metamia is like a girdle for your muses, a cognitive girdle.