Jazz

Jazz originates from the fusion of folk music, pop music, and classical music in New Orleans. New Orleans has long had a unique cultural heritage. From the late 18th century to the early 19th century, New Orleans was mostly occupied and inhabited by the French, who always maintained a high level of attention to art and were more interested in gaining pleasure from music than residents in other parts of the country. Therefore, in the 19th century, New Orleans was the city with the most various musical groups in the United States. The singing performed by black people living in lower New Orleans includes black religious music and work songs. Another common black singing is the street vendor's cry, which is very infectious in its many changes in timbre and pitch. The above three kinds of black music were integrated and gradually formed a kind of performance singing without accompaniment, which later developed into the use of guitar and banjo for accompaniment. New Orleans may have more variety and better jazz than other places, but that doesn't mean New Orleans is the only place that produces jazz. The music produced in every southern American city with a significant black population should be considered a form of early jazz. Other cities include Atlanta, Baltimore, etc. During the 19th century, music was an important means for black slaves on plantations in the southern United States to express their lives and emotions. Since the end of the 19th century, jazz has been based on traditional British and American music, mixed with blues, ragtime and other music types. It is a "hybrid" product. Black music in the Americas retains a lot of African characteristics, obvious rhythmic features, and the characteristics of collective improvisation. This tradition was combined with the music—mostly vocal—of the new settlement, and the result was not just a new sound but an entirely new form of musical expression. The most famous Afro-American music is religious. Jazz as we know it today more accurately reflects the emotional power and melodic sense of early African Americans. The true origins of jazz were poverty. In 1865, the American Civil War ended and the former black slaves were freed, but their lives were still difficult. Most of them are illiterate and can only rely on the music cultivated in their homeland to entertain themselves. Work trumpets and field songs were sung while picking cotton, hymns and hymns were sung at gatherings in segregated churches, and improvisations were sung by solo singers accompanied by a banjo. . In churches, black pastors use the British singing method to solve the problem of not knowing how to sing.

Blues

Blues is a kind of vocal and instrumental music based on the pentatonic scale. Another feature of it is its special harmony. The "blues sound" used in blues and the singing style of Qi Ying both show its Western origin. Blues music is the homesick song of black people. The dirtiest history of civilization is the trafficking of black people from Africa to the Americas. In the 1630s, those poor black people in America would get together every weekend to sing and dance, expressing their homesickness in simple guitar music. They gradually incorporated plantation ditties, local folk songs, and religious songs into their singing. Music and even spirituals gradually formed blues music. At the same time, blues music is also a branch of black work songs and laments before the American Civil War. After the Civil War, blacks improvised and sang new laments in the streets and saloons, lamenting their conflicts with the law, their disappointment in love, or their sad fate in a hostile world.

So they had no choice but to Transfer these dissatisfaction and unhappy moods into singing. Blues music is a music style created by black people living in the United States during their difficult lives. In the social development process at that time, black people were regarded as working people at the bottom, and this great music was born in their history of suffering. The musical form was in sharp contrast to their social status at the time. It originated in the delta of the Mississippi River and originated in the early 20th century as a labor cry for people working in the early days. Blues was originally mainly a human voice narration, in which the songs improvised to sing out all the sorrows and joys in life. In the later evolution and development process, instrumental accompaniment was added, usually acoustic guitar and harmonica. Its production made considerable contributions to jazz, rock music, country music and Western music at that time. It can be said to be an important part of Western music. Because the blues are shaped by individual performances, it is difficult to pinpoint the unique characteristics of all blues. But before the emergence of modern blues, all African American music had certain similarities.

The earliest blues-style music was a "functional expression, and its response singing had no accompaniment, harmony, was not restricted to any form, and did not have any special musical structure." These shouts and calls originated from slaves working in the fields. The pre-blues music gradually expanded into "simple, single-vocal songs with emotional content." The word blues has the same meaning as Blue Devils, which means low-key mood, sadness, and melancholy. In the 19th century the word was used to refer to delirium tremens and police. The use of the term in African American music may be older. The application of Blue Notes makes the music full of depression and dissonance, making this music sound very melancholy. But it is such a "rebellious" atmosphere, and the way blues expresses inner thoughts directly in songs, that it later flourished in rebellious rock music.

Soul

Soul music is a branch of African-American music. It originated from Detroit black music and is a combination of rhythm and blues that originated in the United States in the 1950s. and the musical genre of gospel music. Keeping to the rhythm, clapping, and impromptu body movements are its important characteristics. In addition, the exchange of duets between solo singers and accompaniment singers and the particularly tight vocalization are also its main features. Soul was a fusion of Southern gospel and Midwestern rhythm and blues, and a revival of worship music was brought into the boogie-woogie world of rhythm and blues. From this fertile foundation, soul music was born. Soul music is characterized by a solid rhythm section paired with a decidedly secular dynamic and religious music. Also uses some wind instruments. Yet almost all soul music is marked by passionate, soaring vocals, occasionally sprinkled with improvisation. Soul music expects its listeners to seek love, forgive for love, or simply beg for love. Passionate artists such as Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin have always tried to blur the line between soul singer and gospel preacher. You could almost call soul music religious music without religion. Cities like Detroit and Philadelphia were hotbeds of mainstream soul as it became widely accepted in the mid-to-late 1960s. From August 23, 1969 until the decline of spiritual music, the spiritual music charts once became synonymous with the black music charts. Ray Charles (CHARLES, RAY) was the first spiritual artist. In his rhythm and blues music, he absorbed a lot of the passion and singing methods of black gospel music, especially the vocal method called "flower singing". As we all know, the golden age of spirituals quietly ended with the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968. Afterwards, black people all over the United States launched a series of retaliatory activities without blame. Because the personal safety of employees could not be guaranteed, some companies had to temporarily suspend operations. However, some classic music genres are still being created conscientiously, and their works still occupy a high position in the hearts of listeners. It touched the hearts of an entire generation.