Презентация на тему Brief history of american music

reflection of its culturally and ethnically diverse population.
The USA

has the world’s largest music industry.
Much of today’s modern popular music can trace its roots to African American blues and gospel music from the 1920s.

began in the American “Deep South” in African American

communities.

Blues is known as being very soulful music and the words usually express the sadness that life can bring.

Blues is the foundation of jazz, rhythm and blues (R&B), rock and roll, and country music.

The Blues

King and Eric Clapton play “Ten Long Years”.

When most

Americans hear the word “blues”, they think of guitarist, singer, and songwriter B.B. King.

In his youth, he played on street corners for dimes.

King calls every one of his guitars “Lucille”.

B.B. King

combination of all the musical cultures that were happening

in the city of New Orleans in the 1900s; traditional African drumming, church music, classical music, the blues, and more.

Jazz’s most unique quality is improvisation.

A jazz ensemble can have many different instruments, but the traditional jazz quartet includes piano, bass, drums, and either saxophone or trumpet.

Jazz is called America’s only original art form.

Jazz

ways, both with his incredible trumpet playing and his

singing.

Renowned for his charismatic stage presence as much for his musical virtuosity.

In a racially divided America, Armstrong was popular with both races, being the first “cross-over” artist.

Louis Armstrong

Esperanza Spalding is one of the most popular jazz

musicians alive.

Spalding won the Grammy for Best New Artist against Justin Bieber in 2011.

Spalding is a brilliant acoustic bass player and singer. She also writes and arranges her own songs.

Esperanza is being called the hope for jazz because not only is her music truly great, but very accessible to people who aren’t musicians.

What difference do you hear between Esperanza Spalding’s music and Louis Armstrong’s music?

Esperanza Spalding

is the King of the Blues?

Why is Esperanza Spalding

being called the hope for jazz?

What instrument did Louis Armstrong play?

What is jazz’s most unique quality?

music is a popular American music style that began

in the rural South in the 1920s.

It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music.

Country music tends to have simple forms and harmonies, and is most often accompanied by string instruments (banjoes, guitars, and fiddles).

Country music

of the most successful female country artists of all

time, with more #1 hits than any other musician in this genre.

Parton is now rich and famous, but grew up, in her words, “dirty poor”. Her family lived in a one room, broken down cabin in rural Tennessee.

Dolly Parton

the US during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

It

is a combination of blues, country, jazz, and gospel music.

Rock and roll influenced much of the music that came after it.

Rock and Roll

is one of America’s cultural icons and is widely

known only as Elvis.

Elvis was one of the originators of rock and roll.

Elvis had hits in many different genres: country, pop ballads, gospel and blues.

Elvis Presley

Who is the Queen of Country Music?

3. Rock and

Roll is a combination of which musical genres?

4. Elvis is the originator of which genre?

to En Vogue singing “My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna

Get It)”

Rhythm and blues is a genre that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

Rhythm and Blues

most influential record labels.

Motown was based in the city

of Detroit.

The Jackson 5 were on the Motown record label and their singer was a very young Michael Jackson!

Motown was important in the racial integration of popular music because of its cross cultural success.

Motown

so hard to tell” – Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, pictured

here, is one of folk’s most innovative artists. The song we are hearing is “California”.

American folk music was revived as a popular genre in the 1940s.

From the beginning, folk music songs were written to protest various inequalities in American society.

The sound of folk music tends to be softer, with acoustic guitars and melodic vocals.

Folk

genre can be called….
Listen to their song “Attaboy” and

decide which genres you hear.

This is a genre that is hard to define because its roots are in so many different types of music.

This group, with the famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma, is proud that their music fits no genre.

The instruments you are hearing are mandolin, cello, acoustic bass, and violin .

New Folk

record label that produced cross cultural hits?

What does R&B

stand for? Describe the music.

What did American folk music protest against?

Why is it difficult to put “New Folk” into one genre?

to Stevie Wonder, one of the greatest songwriters of

all time. This song is entitled “Black Man”.

Funk began in the mid-1960s when African American musicians combined soul, jazz, and R&B music into a danceable form of music.

The bass line is the central part of every funk song.

Funk

Brown’s “Get Up Offa That Thing”.

James Brown is one

of the most influential figures in all of America’s musical history.

James Brown is the world’s most “sampled “ artist; this means that different musicians and producers have taken pieces of his songs, and created their own songs from them.

He influenced the development of many different musical genres.

Is James Brown singing or speaking the words? What other type of music speaks its words?

James Brown

“Rapper’s Delight” and discuss the differences between this song

and the rap you hear today.

The roots of rap can be traced back to West African storytellers; they would deliver stories rhythmically, over a drum beat.

Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” was released in 1979 and is the first rap single to be a Top 40 hit.

Which instruments do you hear in this song? Which instruments do you hear in rap songs today?

Rap

genre…
The word “pop” stands for popular music.

Today’s pop music

is a blend of all the different genres we talked about today.

Beyonce is one of the world’s biggest pop artists today.

She has an all-female band which tours with her and performs in her videos. Many of the women in this band are also talented jazz musicians.

What do you think Beyonce’s musical influences are?

Pop

every funk song?

Which funk artist is one of the

most influential musicians of all time?

When did “Rapper’s Delight” come out?

Describe Beyonce’s band.

And now we come to …