the late nineteenth century, in a city at the mouth of the Mississippi River, inhabited by a myriad of people of different races and different cultures (French, Creole, English, Anglo-Saxon , ,...) African Americans had spread a new way of making music, which was named Jazz, and the mythical city that you are talking about is New Orleans.
His first songs conditions are in place (Calls) of the slave laborers, the songs of collective work (work-song), songs of a religious nature such as Spiriutuals, in which American blacks identify with the people Israel's prisoner Pharaoh in Egypt and finally the Blues, sad songs of nature, an expression of diversity of black.
The Blues, more than other types of songs, was to express the soul of music neroamericana, then merged the melodies and rhythms of African music with European origin.
It was music for every occasion, and a little 'wherever they played the Blues. In the streets the vendors sounded to call the attention of passers-by, turned young bands playing instruments made in the most rudimentary and the numerous night clubs, pianists entertained guests with lively rhythm of regtime (= time played), a music characterized contrast between regular rhythm and syncopation.
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