Jazz is a particular genre in music. This took roots in the urban communities of the Southern United States during the early 20th century. Afro-American musicians, influenced by both the African rhythmic beat and European melodic sound, were the very first to experiment it and to develop it into a distinct musical form.
Since then, however, jazz artists have integrated more of the popular American music. The result of which is the creation of the only musical genre that can be claimed as America’s best and unique contribution to the music world.
There have been many theories about how the term ‘jazz’ came to be and how it was related to the music. Jazz artists of the early years claim that ‘to jazz’ was an explicit expression of the intent to have sex. This owed to the fact the term ‘jazzbow’ then referred to a person who can easily have his way with women.
On the other hand, linguists assert that the term may have come from the times of the old English such as Shakespeare or even older such as Chaucer. Still another theory is that the term originates from the US west coast although that is the farthest that its argument can go. However, people nowadays seem not to care how the word originated. As long as it refers with the good music that American truly call its own, the etymology no longer matters.
Since its inception, jazz music later branched out to more subgenres. These developments were made as the music was introduced to other parts of the country. The Dixieland in New Orleans was its original version in the early part of the 1900’s.
It soon spawned the swing, which was performed by big bands, in the 1930’s. Bebop became a hit in the mid-1940. In the succeeding years, jazz was infused with Brazilian samba and the Afro-Cuban beat, which resulted into another variety, the Latin jazz.
The 1970’s, which was the time of acid rock, acid jazz came into existence in the music industry. Since the 80’s until these contemporary times, jazz has blended with the R&B and hip-hop genre. In fact, it has been infused also into modern techno-pop music, creating a synthetic sound, which is techno-jazz.
As American music has influenced much of the world’s music industry, so has jazz become a part of many countries’ music. Its beat and sound has been incorporated to the unique melodies of dominant in a particular country, which led into a more acceptable sound for everyone despite the differences in culture. Some musicians call it world music, a mixture of exotic and distinct local music and western jazz
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Thelonius Monk / TIME Cover: February 28, 1964, Art Poster by TIME Magazine $15.95 The most eagerly awaited event in the editorial cycle at TIME Magazine is always the selection of the cover. The best covers capture the zeitgeist of the week while surviving the judgment of history. As browsing this collection of TIME cover art prints shows, TIME is as good a record as any of who and what mattered over the past 80-plus years. And so when TIME captures a person, an event or a tre… |
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