African music and dance was cultivated largely by societies in sub-Saharan Africa. Other reason, I think Music’s importance is based on old traditions and culture is because Africa. With the easy operation and its deep sounding beats, the drum or the drum sound has been a heavy part of why us as African Americans are so drawn to rap music. Thanks to traditions of our ancestors music was brought into our culture. Songs generally are in call-and-response form."So Music became such a import part of our, African American, culture because in a nut shell type of way language gave music it entrance into our culture and our every day lives.Īs I look more in the past of our culture, I truly believe the true reason music has such an important part of our culture is due to our ancestral indigenous African Musical celebration and dances. In group singing, some societies habitually sing in unison or in parallel octaves with sporadic fourths or fifths others sing in two or three parts, using parallel thirds or fourths. Melodies are usually organized within a scale of four, five, six, or seven tones. Because many African languages are "tone languages," in which pitch level determines meaning, the melodies and rhythms of songs generally follow the intonation contour and rhythms of the song texts. "All sub-Saharan traditions emphasize singing, because song is used as an avenue of communication. Expressioned by oral traditions that are stylistically distinct from the music and dance of both the Arabic cultures of North Africa and the Western settler populations of southern Africa.
The true reason I believe for african americans being so in love with the rap music, these rap insdustries put out, is because Indigenous African musical and dance. If you visit the link below and listen my favorite song Love faces by Trey Songz, you will then experience the way I do. When I listened to song it makes me want to of course have sex. Seductive lyrics like those show how easy it is to use words to make a scene or cause a type of feeling. We just havin Sex"-(excerpt from SEX by Chris Brown). Lyrics like "How deep do you want me to go? Do you want me to speed it up, speed it up or go slow? Start from the bed then we out here on the floor.Girl you're really in for a treat now, but don't fall in love cuz. Victor Hugo says "“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.” Music, with the beats melodies and notes, makes its way through your ears into your memories with the lyrics that can instantly have you feeling warm inside.
Just give the songs a listen and the feelings for that person becomes obvious. Between the text messages, tweets, and facebook we always know each others favorite songs. I have just recently been temporarily separated from my spouse for a short period of time, but during that time we both looked towards our IPod to help us to fill the void. Music has a way of reviling your true emotion.
We have romantic music, r&b music, Soul music and etc. Music has a way to enter the heart of all those whose listen.
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