Exegeses

The reason of selecting this specific topic is because, academically it is a very good topic to research on as you learn a lot about the African people's music that they brought with them to make the new world. They

The reason why this topic is selected is because research wise, it refreshes the memory, and adds more information and knowledge. And academically, it is a vast topic that can be discussed numerous of times. The main element that this topic discusses about something the African Slave used to comfort each other and communicate with each other through the hardship of forced labour and the fact that they were not allowed to physically speak to one another. And they brought the introduction of drum playing to send the message across, and it evolved. This mean of communication was not only occurring in the United States which is famously known world wide who are considered as African-Americans, but the word is very general because, America is not only the United States but it involves the whole continent so it include Central America, Caribbean Islands and South America. So each of these regions of the Americas holds the origin of the new world's musical cultures. 

Historically, the slave trade discussed in this topic is still marked as the largest slave trade in history (general knowledge). Even though being forced out of their own homes to be shipped off like sardines in ships for thousands and thousands of miles across the ocean to a different environment used, as slaves did not break them, they formed a culture that is respected, loved and appreciated by untraceable number of people dead and alive.

The messages that their music has does not just touches the soul, and makes you move. The selected topic has a lot of things in common, they have the rhythm that makes me move every time one of the genres are played. The passion I have for dancing is immeasurable, and the passion leans towards the music genres that are discussed in this music blog.

This topic can be tackled in many ways and can arise great discussions that will always be captivating and interesting. The message behind this captivating topic is relatable to anyone and everyone, at any time of the day. These genres’ lyrics speak about pain, love, happiness, grieve, society, politics, sadness, sickness, wealth, loving life, hardship, success and the list goes on. Their music not only sent a message to the world but it is making the world send messages across to each other expressing their feeling, thoughts, and opinions.

The languages sung in these genre are several; languages spoken by the colonial powers, a fusion between their cultural mother tongue and the colonial powers and a combination of the cultural mother tongue, colonial powers language and the native or indigenous people of the land (in some regions). Not only did their languages infuse, but their knowledge of using each other’s instrument to make music that became their identity.

People today are forgetting about the essence of what they are listening today, they do not know that the 4 minute track they have in their ipod or CDs holds something that is worth more than the effort that is put to getting it. A lot of artist are going back to the roots of the genre and fusing is with the new, but how long will that prolong for? And this topic is a reminder to me and the readers that many people struggled to produce these magnificent music that we should hold onto dearly and not just let it fade away but the new electronically instrumental music. It is something that created history, music is one of the oldest form of communications, it should be revived and held on to so the next generations could hear the beauty of music that their ancestors created.

The contributing nodes for this blog are, youtube.com. It helped explaining how the music sounds like and help explaining what to instrument the genre emphasizes on. E-books; google search for books has contributed a lot into finding some information that I refered to for correction of the knowledge. Websites in general has helped me get images to make the blogs more visually appropriate and makes information clearer especially with maps. 

Brazail

Brazil/ Brasil, the land of the most exotic people, and most of all exotic music. Brazil and Samba go together like toast and butter, its hard to visualise one without the other. Afro-Brazilian music is defined as the folks form which developed in Brazil in the result of African cultural fusion (Fonesca, 1993) . During the Slave trade, just like Cuba, Brazil has a numerous number of African culture, roots, belief and the art of music. Brazil is a big country so the spread of slavery and the number of slaves brought into the country. to recap if you would go back to the second entry post it will show you an approximate number of slaves that were sent to Brazil.


Since Brazil and Samba are like toast and butter, let's look at where Samba originally came from. The Samba origionally came from the Southwest African Coast, which are mainly Congolese and Angolans.
The Soul of African cultures is in Salvador da Bahia, where the genre Samba was born. According to Welsh-Asante 1996, the samba went through many transformation to what they declared the rhythems to be called Samba, which Welsh Asante in his book explained where the word Samba comes from in depth. 


Therefore Samba is the genre of music that is highly African influenced, but its not the only genre, Brazil consists of many musical rhythems and genres that maybe countless, but the following are the famous genres:

• Samba
• Bahian Samba (the heavy use of different drums)

This is one of the best example to be given because this is the same band association that were in Michael Jackson's video "they don't about us"

•  Bossa Nova (Is a fusion of Samba based with a twist of Jazz)

To conclude this entry, Brazil hold vast musical genres and heritages that are African influenced because of the slave trade, it is a good element out of a horrible historical event, and gave this generation the ability to enjoy and express our emotions with their music.

Reference

• Welsh-Asante, K. (1996). African Dance: An Artistic, Historical, and Philosophical Inquiry .

French colonial Movement

Unlike the Spanish and the British the French managed to colonise few countries, the most relevent to this topic is Haiti. Haiti lies in the Caribbean Ocean, a small island that people know it mainly for the Voodoo practice or in french Vodou. Vodou is also a genre that is used during worship or rituals, the Vodou as it was mentioned in the entry ealier that it is has the Clave rythem.

The Video is a preview of how the Vodou sounds like, it has the same rhythem as the African tribal music. And the drumming is similar to the some of the Clave influenced rythems.




The next entry, will be moving down south to the Latin America, mainly Brazil which is where the last Slavery movement that will be discussed.