How many languages ​​are on our planet? This question will not leave without an answer, perhaps, only a linguist. Ordinary people are better to limit themselves to the indefinite “how many peoples so many languages”. But, neither the expert on the study of the latter, nor the average earthling will eventually turn out to be […]

Blues is a representative of the secular playing of American blacks, which appeared long before jazz. In essence, the blues is analogous to the ballads brought in by the settlers from the Old World, but with characteristic African-American features. The very word “blue” is very polysemantic and stands for “blue”, “sad”, “melancholic”, “dull”, etc. “Blues” […]

In conventional civilizations all over the world, tune usually accompanies function. Function tunes have been developed by Americans from careers like selecting cotton, for all vocations, to commercial types, like operating railway spikes. As did mariners, whose songs stored function planning easily on high boats through the era of cruise legendary National numbers such as […]

One day the chief editor of the most famous American jazz magazine “Down Beat”, traveling in 124 countries around the world, some reporter during an interview asked: “What is jazz?”. “You have never seen a person so quickly caught in place by such a simple question!”, The editor subsequently said. In contrast, some other jazz […]

An important role in the formation of Afro-American music was played by the process of conversion of slaves brought from Africa into the Christian faith. Black did not object to the initiation of a new faith, because she gave them the hope of liberation. This is how the dogmas of Christianity were perceived, adapting themselves […]