Jazz originated from the fusion of folk music, pop music and classical music in New Orleans. New Orleans has a unique cultural tradition for a long time. From the late 18th century to the early 19th century, most of New Orleans was occupied and lived by the French, who always paid close attention to art and were more keen on getting pleasure from music than residents in other parts of the country. Therefore, in the 19th century, New Orleans had the largest number of music groups in the United States. Black people living in lower New Orleans sing in two forms: black religious music and work songs. Another common black singing is the hawking of street vendors, which is very infectious in many changes in timbre and pitch. The above-mentioned three kinds of black music gradually formed a performance singing without accompaniment, and later developed into guitar and banjo as accompaniment. Jazz in New Orleans may be more and better than other places, but this does not mean that New Orleans is the only place that produces jazz. The music produced in every southern American city with a considerable number of blacks should be regarded as a kind of early jazz. Other cities include Atlanta and Baltimore. During the 19th century, music was an important means for black slaves to express their life and feelings on plantations in the southern United States. 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, and it is a product of "mixed blood". Black music in America has preserved a lot of African characteristics, with obvious rhythm characteristics, and retained the characteristics of collective improvisation. The combination of this tradition and the music of the new residence-mostly vocal music-resulted in not only a new sound but a brand-new musical expression. The most famous African-American music is religious. What people know about jazz today more accurately reflects the emotional strength and sense of melody of early African-Americans. The real origin of jazz is poverty. In 1865, the American Civil War ended, and the former black slaves were free, but their lives were still difficult. Most of them are illiterate and only rely on the music cultivated in their native land to entertain themselves. Labor trumpets and farm songs are sung when picking cotton, hymns and hymns are sung at gatherings in segregated churches, and improvisations are sung by solo singers accompanied by a banjo. In the church, the black priest used the English lead singer to solve the problem of singing without words.
blues
Blues is a kind of vocal music and instrumental music based on pentatonic scale, and its other feature is its special harmony. The "Voice of Blues" used in the blues and Qiying's singing style all show its western origin. Blues music is a homesick song for black people. The dirtiest history of civilization is selling black people from Africa to America. In the 193s, those poor black people in America would get together to sing and dance every weekend and tell their homesickness in simple guitar music. They gradually integrated plantation tunes, local folk songs, religious music and even soul songs into their singing, and gradually formed blues music. At the same time, blues music is also a branch of black work songs and lamentations before the American Civil War. After the Civil War, blacks improvised new lamentations in the streets and salons, mourning their conflict with the law, disappointment with love or sad fate in or in a hostile world.
So they had to transfer these dissatisfied and unhappy feelings into songs. Blues music is a musical style created by black people living in the United States in their hard life. In the process of social development at that time, black people were regarded as the working people at the bottom, and this great musical form was bred in their miserable history, which was in sharp contrast with their social status at that time. It originated in the delta of the Mississippi River, originated in the early 2th century, and worked as a labor bugle for people in the early days. At first, Blues was mainly a narrative of human voice, in which all the anguish and happiness in life were sung extemporaneously. Later, in the process of evolution and development, musical instruments were added, usually with wooden guitars and harmonicas. Its emergence made great contributions to jazz, rock music, country music and western music at that time. It can be said that it is an important part of western music. Because the blues are shaped by their personal performances, it is difficult to point out the similarities and differences of all blues. But before the emergence of modern blues, all African-American music had certain similarities. The earliest blues music is a "functional expression, and its corresponding singing has no accompaniment, harmony, restriction to any form and no special musical structure." These pre-blues music, which originated from the shouts and calls of slaves working in the field, gradually expanded into "simple single songs with emotional content" The word blues is consistent with the meaning of Blue Devils, which means low-key, sad and melancholy. In the 19th century, the word was used to mean tremors, delirium and policemen. The application of this word in African-American music may be older. The application of Blue Notes makes music full of depression and disharmony, which sounds very melancholy. But it is such an "anti-bone" smell that the blues directly expresses their inner thoughts with songs, which makes it later carried forward in rebellious rock music.
soul
soul music is a branch of American black music, which originated from Detroit black music. It is a music genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel music that originated in the United States in the 195s. Tightening the rhythm, clapping hands and improvising body movements are its important characteristics. In addition, the communication between soloist and backup singer, especially tight voice, is also its main feature. Soul music is the fusion of the southern gospel and the rhythm and blues in the midwest, and the revival of worship music is 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 with clear secular dynamic and religious music. At the same time, some wind music is used. However, almost all soul music is marked by enthusiastic and high-pitched voice, and occasionally some improvisation is added. Soul music expects its listeners to find love, forgive for love, or simply beg for love. Enthusiastic artists such as Sam Cooke, ArethaFranklin always try to dilute the dividing line between soul singers and evangelists. You can almost call soul music religious music without religion. Cities such as Detroit and Philadelphia are hotbeds of the mainstream soul because it was widely accepted in the middle and late 196s. From August 23, 1969 until the decline of soul songs, soul songs charts once became synonymous with black music charts. RAY CHARLES was the first soul singer. He absorbed the passion and singing method of black gospel music in rhythm and blues music, especially the vocal method called "flower singing" As we all know, the golden age of soul songs ended quietly with the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4th, 1968. Since then, blacks all over the United States have irreproachable launched a series of revenge activities, because the personal safety of employees can not be guaranteed, and some companies have to temporarily suspend business. However, some classical music schools are still working hard, and their works still occupy a high position in the hearts of the audience. It touched the hearts of a whole generation.