What is jazz?

Jazz originated in the United States at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century, and was born in the southern port city of New Orleans. Its music comes from blues and ragtime music. Jazz pays attention to improvisation, based on the swaying rhythm of shuffling, and is a combination of African black culture and European white culture. In the first decade of the 20th century, jazz developed mainly in New Orleans. 19 17 and then moved to Chicago, and then moved to new york in 1930. Today, jazz is popular all over the world. The main styles of jazz are: New Orleans jazz, swing music, Bibop, cold jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz, fusion jazz and so on.

During the19th century, music was an important means for black slaves to express their lives and feelings on plantations in the southern United States. From the end of 19, jazz was based on traditional British and American music, and it was a product of "mixed blood", combining blues, ragtime and other music types. African-American music retains many African characteristics, obvious rhythm characteristics and collective improvisation characteristics. The combination of this tradition and the music (mainly vocal music) of the new residence not only produces a new sound, but also produces a brand-new musical expression.

The most famous African American music is religious music. These beautiful and moving songs are also listened to by white people, but they are more fashionable than those sung in rural black churches. The gospel music known today more accurately reflects the emotional strength and sense of melody of early African-Americans, rather than the religious inheritance of Fisk Jubilee singer's music in the first decade of the 20th century.

Other early musical forms, including labor songs, nursery rhymes and dance music dating back to slavery, have become important musical heritages, especially considering that musical activities were severely restricted under the system at that time.