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Archive for October, 2010

Jazz music was the creative hands of black people, oppression and slavery in the United States in the 18th century was born. Expression of resistance against the racist and repressive political system came in the form of black Americans to play their music.

History has recorded that slavery and racial discrimination in the United States is born with the music of resistance, such as gospel, spiritual and blues.

In the beginning was the spirit of jazz or the ideology behind the liberation of African Americans from the shackles of oppression socio-political structure and the expression of harmony, tone and style of music represented. Examples: Ragtime was a starting point for the development of classic jazz (March, waltz and polka), the swing was a modification of ragtime, free jazz, bebop, and a reinterpretation of the music world was the deconstruction of jazz conventional.

As a result of the spirit of jazz, was the dialectic, liberal and deconstructive, an old style of making music with the ideas of new music was denied. Then the ideas introduced in the new styles of music. In this case, the chronology of the evolution of jazz into three periods of time in each period divided bore a particular style of music.

The first period was the period of traditional jazz (1890-1940), the birth of ragtime, New Orleans, Dixieland, New Orleans, Chicago and Kansas City, and swing. The second is the modern jazz period (1940-1980), gave birth to New Orleans and Dixieland Revival, bebop, bop, drive cool, mainstream, free and fusion. Meanwhile, the third period, post-modern jazz (1980-present), gave birth Neobop, free funk, classical, neo classical, no-wave music and the world.

The highlight of the deconstruction of jazz took place in 1965, which included the presence of free jazz. This style was a milestone in the development of post-modern jazz with its main characters. The main characters are free tonality, the disintegration of meters on strike, and symmetry, the integration of ethnic music (World Music), the cult of force, and the inclusion of natural sounds, especially the forest (sound). Meanwhile, mainstream jazz in the style of classicism has been redesigned.