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jazz:爵士乐Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in African American musical styles blended with Western music technique and theory. Jazz uses blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation.European JazzOutside of the United States the beginnings of a distinctly European jazz started emerging. At first this came mostly in France with the Quintette du Hot Club de France being among the first non-US bands of significance to jazz history. The playing of Django Reinhardt in particular would be important to the rise of gypsy jazz, which is one of the earliest genres to start outside the US.爵士乐，一种起源于非洲的音乐形式。爵士乐缘自比它更早出现的一些美国黑人音乐（如蓝调，福音歌曲等），而这些音乐是美国黑人根植于其非洲音乐传统的基础上结合他们在现实中的遭遇创作出来的。早期布鲁斯主要表现黑人的悲惨境遇和底层生活状态，大多比较凄苦，福音歌曲主要是（向上帝）祈求平安，希望得到救赎。爵士乐在其发展过程中除了有黑人音乐的根源外，还吸收了如古典音乐，民族音乐等诸多音乐元素，逐渐形成了今天多门多类的爵士乐，所传递的内容也更为多样，不光只是早期的“黑人风格”。
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Jazz: IntroductionWriters have often portrayed the history of jazz as a narrative of progress. Their accounts show jazz evolving from a boisterous type of dance music into forms of increasing complexity, gradually rising in prestige to become an artistic tradition revered around the world. Certainly attitudes towards the music have changed dramatically. In 1924 an editorial writer for The New York Times called jazz ‘a return to the humming, hand-clapping, or tomtom beating of savages’; in 1987 the United States Congress passed a resolution designating jazz ‘an outstanding model of individual expression’ and ‘a rare and valuable national American treasure’. In keeping with this general theme of progress, historians have emphasized
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Jazz the style of music, originated in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
（爵士乐（Jazz），音乐类型，于19世纪末20世纪初源于美国。）
Born in the southern port city of New Orleans, music has its roots in Bruce and ragtime.
（诞生于南部港口城市新奥尔良，音乐根基来自布鲁斯和拉格泰姆。）
Jazz is improvisational, based on the Shuffle rhythm, which is characterized by swing.
（爵士乐讲究即兴，以具有摇摆特点的Shuffle节奏为基础。）
It's a combination of black African culture and white European culture.
（是非洲黑人文化和欧洲白人文化的结合。）
In the first decades of the 20th century jazz was concentrated in New Orleans.
（20世纪前十几年爵士乐主要集中在新奥尔良发展。）
After 1917, it moved to Chicago, in the 1930s to New York, and today, jazz is all the rage.
（1917年后转向芝加哥，30年代又转移至纽约，直至今天，爵士乐风靡全球。）
扩展资料
Jazz起源：19世纪期间，音乐是美国南部种植园黑人奴隶们表达自我生活和情感的重要手段。从19世纪末开始，爵士乐以英美传统音乐为基础，混合了布鲁斯、拉格泰姆及其它音乐类型，是一种“混血”的产物。
美洲的黑人音乐保存了大量非洲特色，节奏特色明显，而且保留了集体即兴创作的特点。这种传统与新居住地的音乐，大部分是声乐，结合起来，结果诞生的不仅仅是一种新的声音而是一种全新的音乐表达形式。
参考资料来源：百度百科-爵士乐
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OverviewJazz has roots in the combination of Western and African music traditions, including spirituals, blues and ragtime, stemming from West Africa, western Sahel, and New England's religious hymns, hillbilly music, and European military band music. After originating in African American communities near the beginning of the 20th century, jazz styles spread in the 1920s, influencing other musical styles. The origins of the word jazz are uncertain. The word is rooted in American slang, and various derivations have been suggested. [1]Jazz is rooted in the blues, the folk music of former enslaved Africans in the U.S. South and their descendants, which is influenced by West African cultural and musical traditions that evolved as black musicians migrated to the cities. Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis states that "Jazz is something Negroes invented...the nobility of the race put into sound ... jazz has all the elements, from the spare and penetrating to the complex and enveloping.[2]The instruments used in marching bands and dance band music at the turn of century became the basic instruments of jazz: brass, reeds, and drums, using the Western 12-tone scale. A "...black musical spirit (involving rhythm and melody) was bursting out of the confines of European musical tradition [of the marching bands], even though the performers were using European styled instruments.[3]Small bands of Black musicians which led funeral processions in New Orleans played a seminal role in the articulation and dissemination of early jazz, traveling throughout black communities in the Deep South and to northern cities. This early proto-jazz music was done primarily by self-taught musicians.The postbellum network of black-established schools, as well as civic societies and widening mainstream opportunities for education, produced more formally trained African-American musicians. Lorenzo Tio and Scott Joplin were schooled in classical European musical forms. Joplin, the son of a former slave and a free-born woman of color, was largely self-taught until age 11, when he received lessons in the fundamentals of music theory. Black musicians with formal music skills helped to preserve and disseminate the essentially improvisational musical styles of jazz.
