文档介绍：American Music
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Catalog
Introduction
Music style
Representation
Appreciation
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Introuduction
美国音乐囊括了:
hiphop+rap(嘻哈饶舌说唱)
R&B+soul(节奏布卢斯和灵魂乐)
pop(前卫流行)
rock&roll(摇滚乐)
American country music (乡村音乐)
Disco jockey (DJ电子混音舞曲归在hiphop里)
punk (朋克乐归在rock里)
Gothic(歌特音乐)
jazz(爵士)
metal(金属乐)
classical(古典)等多元化美国本土以及欧美混合音乐元素。
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Music style
Rock&roll
Hip-hop
Classical
JAZZ
Country
R&B
Jazz
Jazz is a style of music that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African munities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions.
From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music.
Origins
African music was largely functional, for work or ritual, and included work songs and field hollers
The African tradition made use of a single-line melody and call-and-response pattern, but without the European concept of harmony.
Rhythms reflected African speech patterns, and the African use of pentatonic scales led to blue notes in blues and jazz.
Elements of Jazz
Jazz is very hard to describe because there are now many different styles of jazz.
Common instruments used in Jazz music are trumpet, piano, and saxophone
Improvisation is a key element. Scat-singing is mon
R&B
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the term was originally used by panies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was ing more popular.
History
Early to mid 1950s
"Ain't That a Shame".
Late 1950s
"Lawdy Miss Clawdy"
1960s and later
"Last Night"
Destiny's Child
Rock Music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classica