There are ski resorts in the areas of Flagstaff, Alpine, and Tucson. Northern Arizona features forests of pine, Douglas fir, and spruce trees the Colorado Plateau mountain ranges (such as the San Francisco Mountains) as well as large, deep canyons, with much more moderate summer temperatures and significant winter snowfalls. Southern Arizona is known for its desert climate, with very hot summers and mild winters. The southernmost portion of the state was acquired in 1853 through the Gadsden Purchase. After being defeated in the Mexican–American War, Mexico ceded much of this territory to the United States in 1848.
Historically part of the territory of Alta California in New Spain, it became part of independent Mexico in 1821.
Arizona shares the Four Corners region with Utah to the north, Colorado to the northeast, and New Mexico to the east its other neighboring states are Nevada to the northwest and California to the west and the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest.Īrizona is the 48th state and last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the Union, achieving statehood on February 14, 1912. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. His shows and public appearances display an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of recorded music in general, from the earliest Edison cylinder recordings onward.Arizona ( / ˌ ær ɪ ˈ z oʊ n ə/ ( listen) ARR-ih- ZOH-nə Navajo: Hoozdo Hahoodzo Navajo pronunciation: O'odham: Alĭ ṣonak) is a state in the Western United States, grouped in the Southwestern and occasionally Mountain subregions. Hansen has developed a particular interest in the roots of rock 'n' roll in R&B and country music, and he has written about it in many magazine articles, liner notes to compilations and new recordings by a variety of artists, and two chapters on early R&B for The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. He attended Reed College, where he wrote his senior thesis on Wagnerian opera, graduating in 1963, and later studied at UCLA, from which he earned a master's degree in folklore and ethnomusicology. Hansen was born the son of an amateur pianist and claims to have started his vast record collection as early as age 12, when he found "that a local thrift store had thousands of old 78 RPM records for sale at 5 cents each". To some people, he is best known as the man who brought rock parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic to national attention, as well as Elmo and Patsy's 1979 Christmas song "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer". He has also released many compilations of music featured on his show on vinyl records, audio tape cassettes, and compact discs. His weekly show went into syndication in 1974 and is still on the air as of 2006. Legend has it, after Hansen played "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus on the radio, someone said that he had to be demented to play that.
He created the persona in 1970 while working at Los Angeles station KPPC-FM.
Demento (born Apin Minneapolis, Minnesota) is the stage name of Barret Hansen, who has made a successful career as a radio disc jockey specializing in novelty songs and pop music parodies.
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