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Before becoming universal as now, there was a time when
certain genres of music were for marginal people. It happened in United States
(US), once music had became particular identity to particular race, which is
Afro- America (black people). That is why, it was called Music Race. These
following genres are kind of music race
created by black people
a. Blues
At that time,
black people in U.S were slaves. They were not really respected. Their right to
speak was curbed. As a result, they created music to express what they were
feeling during that time. This genre of
music is called blues. Blues was
taken from blue which closely related
to sadness and melancholy. It is because at that time, black people were
treated bad. Vionlence was often granted to them. By singing and playing music,
black people can easily release what they had been feeling. Therefore, the lyrics in blues tends to
contain anger, loneliness, and dudgeon.
The term of blues was officially used in 1910. Around 19th century
this kind of music developed widely. Then, in 20th century, the
white began to be interested in Blues. In the beginning of 1960, blues underwent decreasing of
popularity. The recording company did not want to contract American Blues
musician. So, there were many british musicians filling this empty position,
such as The rolling Stones, Eric Clapton,John Mayal dan Bluesbreaker . As the
result, the british atmosphere colored the US blues musicians.
Today, Blues
is not only for black but also all people. Blues lovers comes from all over the
world, across nations, races, skins and
occupations. People see blues as a genre of music which can be listened, sung
and played by everyone.
Ma Rainey, two from right, has been known as the mother
of blues
b.
b.
Gospel
Gospel is estimated appearing in the beginning
of 20th century in Afro-American Churh. However, today gospel has
been broadly expanded to the other countries, such as Australia, New Zealand,
Japan, Canada, etc. In those countries, there have been association to assamble
gospel musicians.
c. Jazz
Probably, lots of people will
consider Jazz as a classy music genre, regarding plenty of jazz lovers come
from the have. Nevertheless, Jazz itself is originally from marginal people. It
came from lifestyle of downtrodden black
persons in U.S. Jazz came out at the initial of 20th century whose
root was from Africa-Eropa music. Jazz is a combination of blues, gospel, and
field hollers.
The term Jazz is actually kind of
vulgar term, related to sexual action. Even, some rhythm in Jazz was
notoriously associated with prostitution and bad women. Time
elapsed, and Jazz is not seen as like that anymore. Jazz became something
classy, when the musicians can express their feeling spontaneously and amazingly. That
feeling is hardly explained as Louis Armstrong stated “If you ask it, you will
never know”.
Jazz turned out popular and spreaded
to everywhere and every social stratum in U.S. in 1920’s (known as Jazz age).
Jazz was more mainstream in swing era in the late of 1930’s, and got its peak
in the late of 1950’s as modern Jazz. At last, Jazz now has been extensively known
as a genre of music which has so many fans in the world, no matter what their
race, nation and skin.
d. R&B
R&B (Rhythm and Blues) or
also known as Hip hop is a genre of music that combine blues, gospel, and jazz
altogether. This stream was firstly introduced by Afro-American. R&B was a
marketing name which has already given by Jerry Wexler in 1947 who worked in
Billboard magazine. R&B replaced race
music and harlem hit parade category in Billboard on June 1949.
Nowdays,
R&B has been broadly loved by people, especially teenagers. It is probably
because R&B possesses up beat melody, which fresh and energic—so click with
youth’s soul. Some of famous R&B singers are Usher, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Gwen Stefani, Jennifer Lopes,
and many more.
e. Rap
Rap is
actually part of hip hop culture. Rap is a genre of music which allows the
singer to talk fast rhythmytically, person who does that called rapper. Some said that Rap was born from
the black teenagers in Bronx settlement in U.S, 1970. At that time, rapper had
not appeared yet. People at that time just had MC (Master of Ceremony) who
talked fast rhythmically while DJ (Disk Jockey) playing the disk. This resulted
a nice collaboration. Afterwards, several years later, the term MC did not use
anymore, replaced by rapper, The
lyrics that a rapper said is plenty of slang and sometimes rude. The famous
rappers we know now are 50 cent, Eminem, Jayz, Wiz Khalifa and many more. Today, rap has been teenager's favourite music genre, without seeing what their skin and race.
Sources: wikipedia.com, dexripsi.blogspot.com, anneahira.com
