jazz-story

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The Humane Story of Jazz Music

the American Continents were first inhabited thousands of years ago by people from Central Europe who went past Mongolia and crossed the Beringia Land Bridge which later became Bering Strait between Asia and Alaska ; the people , called red-Indians , spread throughout the American Continents ;

Columbus discovered America as everyone knows but what is not equally well-known is that he paved the way for the discovery of a cultural landmark of the modern world -- Jazz music ; this is how it happened :

following the discovery of America by Columbus ( 1451 – 1506 ) , a lot of migration took place from Europe to America ; the enterprising Europeans who migrated to America had engaged in agriculture and needed a lot of farm labourers { dic_ labourer n person who labours esp someone doing manual work for wages } but they were too sophisticated for labour ; when Magellan ( 1480 – 1521 ) circumnavigated the Earth going around Africa , a new source of labour was found -- Africa ; and , the ruthless Europeans rounded-up Africans and by force , using fire-arms , transported them to the newly discovered American Continents and put them to forced labor in America ; poor Africans were hapless { dic_ hapless adj unlucky } victims of the process of expansion to the new world ; the native Americans , red-Indians , were too independent and fierce to be subjugated ; the red-Indians adapted { adapt v make or become suitable for a new use or purpose } to the use of fire-arms and became expert horse riders ( horses were not native to America : they were brought to America from Arabia by Europeans ) and defied the Europeans ; the unorganized native Africans brought to America were made slaves to the white land owners in America ; however the creative human spirit is not to be dominated ; we all know that slavery in US was abolished during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln ; the difficult situation of the blacks in America spurred { dic_ spur v encourage } the development of yet another creative black response -- American jazz music ; the jazz music is based on improvisation – like Indian music though the two schools of music are not historically related ; jazz music is noted for its rhythm and the use of syncopation -- { { dic_ syn.co.pa.tion n ( music ) a shifting of the normal accent , usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats } ; { dic_ syncopate v ( music ) stress the week beats in a rhythm instead of the strong ones ; syncopation n } } -- a shift in emphasis that doesn’t return to the original strong beat (.sum as it is called in Indian music ) unlike the thihayi in Indian music ; the situation the black jazz musicians depict is their own condition in life of having been displaced from their native land without any hope of returning to their motherland ;

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