THE RELEVANCE OF 'BLACK MUSIC' IN POPULAR CULTURE

The Relevance of 'Black Music' in Popular Culture



The Relevance of 'Black Music' in Popular Culture

Introduction

American black music, or African-American music, is a generic term encompassing all musical cultures originating from or influenced by the culture of African-Americans, who constitute a large ethnic minority population of the United States. It was created by the encounter between European and several musical forms, the spirit and African musical sensibility. This meeting gave rise to a series of expressions and styles of music that, without this combination of influences not present the characteristics that we know today. The history of these musical cultures is closely linked to the history of slavery and the triangular trade since the sixteenth century. The main musical influences are obviously soul, funk and R & B, the heartbeat of parts of each district, but also for his sense of jazz improvisation and its questioning of traditional melodic patterns. All DJs have started first on vinyl recording of James Brown.

Rap becomes a means for the rapper at the microphone to preach his word in front of strangers and try to convince them, regardless of the message. Ideas are therefore short, these are sound and flashes of meanings that burst, repeated shocks of short or long words to phonetics used to hit close to the listener.

Discussion

The difference between the "races" classified groups of people is particularly important in the development of popular music, however, the difference between the "races" classified groups of people: while the European-born population largely in spite of an American self-awareness in cultural terms, their mostly European roots arrested remained were African-Americans as slaves from Africa and the United States were often deliberately separated from people of their own ethnic group. Since the settlement structure in Africa was decentralized and some tribes also lived a nomadic, the deportees in the U.S. were not only facing a language barrier (almost everyone spoke a different language or dialect), but culture also facing a problem because there is no "national" songs was that all was known.

In addition, they exercise their cultural traditions, including the music, is prohibited. So had the slaves not only the language of their "owners" learn (speaking or singing was in the home language on the cotton plantations, often under penalty), but agree on common content, most of which were also influenced by Christian missionaries. On the other hand, developed through this oppression and violent separation from the native culture among African Americans as the first Americans is something like a new common culture, based on assumed elements of European culture in conjunction with African traditions. This played in the first half of the 19th Century because of their status and their social situation once no special role.

After the American civil war that brought the slaves, at least formally, the freedom of choice of employment, many former slaves flocked from the plantations in the South to the industrial centres in the north, in order to earn their money, a significant ...