Classmates, let me introduce my topic
with this song called What a
wonderful world by
one the most famous singers of jazz, Louis Armstrong. I’m completely sure that
you have heard this song once in your life! enjoy it!
Well, maybe you have an idea of what I’m
going to talk about … right? Sure! This post is about a striking and popular
musical genre that we talked on classes, which is JAZZ.
Jazz, is a musical genre born in the
late nineteenth century, which was developed in New Orleans, Louisiana from the
African traditions. Maybe you remember what we saw on classes that, this was
because of the big influences of people of color communities in the city, due
to the fact that In this city a vast majority of black people (slaves) arrived
there.
Moving on, you should be wondering how
this started? And Why ? . Well, mainly, the first manifestations of
Afro-Americans were a combination of several rhythms though the use of drums.
In addition, started because of improvisation, which was an important
characteristic that differentiated them from the other styles of music.
Furthermore, they started creating music for several reasons
as well as the need to express their daily life as slaves, entertaining,
spent time while they were working and so on .Can you come up with more
reasons? J
To continue with, while I was looking up
for information, I thought about something said on classes in relation to
that jazz has came from the suffering and misery of color people and that was
something real , but… why ? ?, I believe that is because it was
the only instance for them to express their feelings without the
master oppression . Though this musical genre, those melodies, dances, lyrics
and so on, showed the world what they were living and how they felt about it.
In a nutshell, I decided to write
down about this topic with the intention to show you how people have used music
as an instrument to express their feelings even until these days. Moreover, it
is interesting to think about the contradictions of that society , for instance
as Faulkner said, for him The South was far of became a paradise , in view of the fact that they based on horror,
therefore they contradicted, because they abused and punished the only thing
that was pure and real in tat society : jazz !!
So tell me , Do you like jazz music?
While reading your post, I couldn´t stop thinking about rap music. Just think about it. Rap started as a asrt form which the blac community started to use as a way to state things that they weren´t allowed to. Rap comes from anger and violence and just like jazz, it started in peoples basements and friends parties.
ResponderEliminarMaybe a lot of time has passed since Faulkner´s novels, but it seems that the black community cultural struggle is still an unfinished subject : jazz music and rap music might help us to understand the complexity of the problem