jeudi 19 février 2015

Discover All About Jazz Music

By Katina Brady


This is a type of music that is widely spread across many nations of the world and is food to the soul for many. However, it has its origin in the black American community who use to sing the songs as work songs. Each nation has its own special taste in this music due to the different cultures. The article below talks all about jazz music.

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.

Composition of jazz is not an easy task to undertake. One cannot just sit down and come up with words hence making a song like it happens in other forms of music. As observed during the various performances, it is usually performed by a band. This means that effort put is based on the input of each and every member of the group hence a lot of cooperation is required.

Depending on the mood of the performer, his experience in this field over the years and also based on how he interacts with fellow musicians and the members of audiences, he may choose to add some melodies of his own just to add flavor and originality to his performance on stage and this highly improve the reception of this composition.

Jazz has an advantage of marking the history of African-American society, conserving their culture and often reminding them where they came from. They take a lot of pride in acknowledging the struggle they had to go through to get where they are today hence that is the reason why a lot of love is placed on it.

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.

Just like any other category of occupation, there are difficulties that accompany this music. The main one is the fact that with the recent years, new compositions are being developed which are more appreciated than jazz. The lovers of this genre have grown smaller in size and in order to revive it, new methods are coming up such as teaching it as a course in schools.

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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