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American Music History
Transcript of American Music History
Thank you for your attention!
And one more thing...
The music of the native americans has no signification to the american music tradition.
The popular music from the 16th to the 18th century were classical music and opera composed by e.g. Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Mendelsohn, Strauss, Hände, Puccini and Verdi.
The immigrants brought their own instruments and music tradition with them from their old country.
They played and sang whenever family and friends were together and in their churches.
Folk Music and Country
Many American folk songs are identical to British songs in arrangements, but with new lyrics - a variety of ballads, humorous stories and tales of heroes or legendary people.
This is about cowboys sitting round the campfire at night telling og singing stories about their lives on the great prarie.
Spirituals were primarily expressions of religious faith, sung by slaves on southern plantations.
In the mid to late 19th century, spirituals spread out of the U.S. South.
It later evolved to the popular style of gospel music sung and played in the churches.
Negro spirituals & gospel
American Music History
Classical Gospel Blues
Jazz Folk Country
Soul Rock Pop
R & B Hip Hop Rap
Blues is a combination of African work songs. It developed in the rural South in the first decade of the 20th century.
Just like the cowboys playing their guitar and singing about their lives round the campfire - the negro was picking his guitar and singing about his enslaved life - a life of hard work, deep poverty and of sorrow - naturally feeling "blue".
One of the first to be recorded was Robert Johnson but others soon followed - now they are all legends: Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and BB King.
Jazz's roots come from the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, populated by Cajuns and black Creoles, who combined the French-Canadian culture of the Cajuns with their own styles of music in the 19th century. Large Creole bands that played for funerals and parades became a major basis for early jazz, which spread from New Orleans to Chicago and other northern urban centers.
Though originally a kind of dance music, jazz has been a major part of popular music. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African American music traditions including blues and ragtime.
The earliest jazz bands adopted much of the vocabulary of the blues.
It later brought the bigbands with e.g. Count Basie and soon follewed crooners like Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra.
Soul and R&B
R&B, an abbreviation for rhythm and blues, is a style that arose in the 1930s and 1940s. Early R&B consisted of large rhythm units "smashing away behind screaming blues singers (who) had to shout to be heard above the clanging and strumming of the various electrified instruments and noisy rhythm sections.
Soul music is a combination of rhythm and blues and g