VPMB94H3 Chapter 4: VPMB94 Chapter 4 Review
29 Jan 2012
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Originated from pop music styles of the 1800s. 3 trends caused the birth of jazz: improvisation. Liberties with melodies & accompaniment of tunes: liberties with tone qualities. Cultivate rough & raspy sound to collection of smooth tone qualities: ragtime & blues. Toy with a melody tone"s pitch to produce soulful effect. Manipulate starting times for sung notes & phrases. Africans lived in the new world as slaves. Not grouped with members of the same language community. Seemed like african musical tastes & performance practices could have died out. Overpowered by european musical tastes of performance practices of majority culture. Modified european church hymns, folk songs & dance music to suit own tastes & traditions. Ways in which african tastes & traditions were retained: children"s games. Interaction that cultivated juggling of complicated rhythm: african american church music. Make bland, non-swinging phrases more rhythmically emphatic: idiosyncrasies of speech patterns. Fused words together that were normally kept separate.
