Saturday, February 14, 2015

Discover All About Jazz Music

By Katina Brady


This music has been existent for a very long period of time, over a hundred years and it is still loved by many. It has its origin from the African-American community who highly place a high sense of pride in it. Its what defines them and their culture and this is the reason for the great amount of love placed on it. The information below is all about jazz music as a genre.

Early forms of compositions such as the blues helped in coming up with this type of euphony. Others are work songs which the slaves used to hum to during their times in the field when they used to be forced to work for the white settlers. They acted as motivation songs during this period of time.

Another aspect of this type of music is that it heavily relies upon contribution by a group of people, their collaboration and how they interact. It hence mainly emphasizes on team work for the purpose of realizing great success. This means that the performer will interpret the tune to the very best of his ability never making a mistake of playing the same composition in the exact same tune twice.

With this type of songs, when the performer stands on stage to deliver to their audience, they are not restricted to stay in line with whatever was rehearsed. To add more flavor to the delivery of this music, they usually throw a little bit of their own rhymes at random and this cats as a signature move and the audience gladly dance to the tune.

It is very important to appreciate ones a culture. This shows a sense of belonging and for this reason, jazz is highly loved by members of the black American community because through the songs, they are able to reflect upon their lives and silently give thanks to their ancestors for being brave enough to fight for their freedom and giving them the peace that they so music enjoy.

In contrast to the above, there are some groups of communities who do not appreciate jazz. They base their argument on the fact that it reminds them of past years, which they would rather put locked up in the back of their heads. The sound of same tunes sadly do not give them any joy; but as stated above, these are just a minority as majority d the people are huge fans and would pay a lot of money to attend such concerts.

One of the major challenges that face people of this music sector is that the generations of today prefer other musical types and jazz is not as popular as it used to be. It is depreciating at a fast rate and efforts have to be made to save it. This can be done through teaching it in the institutions of higher learning.

In conclusion, jazz is a very unique type of music and though it has its origin in the olden days, it s very interesting and people should be advised to look into it and embrace it. Technology has played a hand in this by providing access in the various social media sites and other websites such as YouTube. This is because culture should always be conserved at all means possible.




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