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Jazz, Hip-Hop, Blues

America, the big melting pot, has always beenwith it.Around the time of Napoleon,
influencing the music of the whole world. Itmilitary  bands  increased  in  popularity
gave birth to many different styles and music
traditions. Jazz, Hip-Hop and Blues are theand were all very well received by the
three most known and most popular traditionsFrench.  This  led  to  an
that also originated in the US.One of the
most famous of musical traditions is that ofincreased importation of brass band
the  Blues.  Itinstruments  to  all  the  French
has also been one of the most influential,settlements, including those in New Orleans
paving  the  way  for  manyand  other  parts  of
other new styles of music. Blues, a distinctAmerica. Creoles ("mixed breeds"- usually
style  of  music,  began  topart  black,  part  French  and
emerge around the 1860's. After the civilsometimes part Indian) who were usually
war,  the  newly  freedwell-educated  freemen  became
Afro-American people were presented with ainfatuated with these instruments and the
new  difficulty.  They  hadsounds  that  they  could  make.
been removed from the lives that they hadThe migrating Southern Afro-Americans soon
previously  known  and  throwncaught  on  to  these  new
into a new life, a life of segregation andinstruments as they socialised with the
contempt.  The  AmericanCreoles  on  their  journey
culture could no longer condone the use ofNorth. Incorporating the sounds of blues and
slavery,  but  it  was  notthe  same  non-western
ready to accept the new free men and womensyncopated rhythms that had been brought
into  their  society  either.from  Africa,  a  new  breed  of
Many had to travel the country in search ofmusic began to grow. It was simply a
work.  These  people  werevariation  of  traditional  marching
mostly men and those of whom music appealedband music, but it began to change as blues
to  most  took  upbecame  more  and  more
instruments such as the guitar and harmonicaprevalent. First Ragtime, and then Jass, or
because  these  instrumentsJazz.From New Orleans, jazz moved up river
with  the  Black  Americans
were cheap and easy to travel with. It was
in  this  setting  of  a  sensetravelling North, and in the house parties
of  the  20's  and  30's  it
of deep segregation that the blues was
born.The distinction that made Blues sogained momentum. Where the Blues was the
different  from  other  music  was  it's"devil's  music"  to  many  of
clear roots from the work song of the oldenthe black middle class, Jazz was acceptable.
days.  The  early  blues"Black  music"  was
artists and even the later Jazz musiciansextremely popular in the clubs and parties
used  their  instruments  asof  the  20's.  Jazz  also  made
extensions of their voice. The rhythms thatit possible for Afro-American music to be
they  made  were  in  the  sameimitated  for  the  first  time
non-syncopated form as the work song hadby white musicians, which was a sign of
been  and  the  sounds  werethings  to  come.  The  broad
meant to mimic the human voice. It was inemotional meaning of the genre allowed such
this  way  that  the  bluescross-cultural
became even more significant and even moredevelopments without being 'watered down'.
successful  in  their  effortFree  Jazz  and  Hard  Bop  were
to convey emotion.Travelling Blues shows,all examples of the experimentation the
Minstrelsies, began to tour the country. As amusicians  of  the  time  were
result, Blues began to be heard everywhere,making to elevate the sound. It became more
and  it  began  to  influenceand  more  popular  and  as
more and more people. It was still primarilytime went on more and more musicians began
black  music  listened  toto  try  new  ideas  with  Jazz,
by black people, but that soon began toincreasing its popularity along the way.
change.The first seeds in the roots of JazzJazz  is  still  popular  today,
music  were  sewn  in  the  early
and exists in many different forms and
1900's around 1914 when Afro-Americans beganstyles  e.g.  Be  Bop,  Hard  Bop,
to  migrate  north.  There
Free Jazz, Modern Jazz, Avant Garde, Swing,
were a number of reasons for this; manyFusion and Latin Jazz.The third and final
blacks  were  attracted  by  theAmerican musical tradition is Hip-Hop/Rap
music.
opportunity of good jobs and a better and
freer  life  in  the  North;Hip-Hop/Rap came into being around about
1978.  Rock  n'  Roll  music  was
while others simply sought to flee the
poverty,  slavery,  andextremely popular and was very much a part
of  American  culture,  but  it
segregation of the South. The American dream
was  drawing  thesehad long lost its Afro-American association
and  the  Blacks  were  eager
particular Americans forth much as it did
with  the  early  pioneers  offor another style of music to call their
own.  Funk's  sound  and  rhythms
the west. Up the river went the new Blues
and  a  new  kind  of  music  wentdid not evolve into Hip Hop, but it did set
the ball rolling.



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