A timeline from early 1900s to today with many prominent African American musicians. I own no rights to these songs, and they are not my work, i just compile…
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http://www.archieball.com From The Hang: Archie Shepp, the veteran saxophonist, educator and activist discusses why young African American musicians aren’t p…
where again is the funk??
i love black people evern though i am asian
Nice video!
@MrGonz2012 I guess its all in the eye of the beholder. Whether one
considers today’s style of music “authentic” or “good”, nobody can argue
against the fact that the African American community played a prominent
role in the rise of some of today’s music genres.
enjoyed the timeline and its accurcy however i was puzzled by the abscence
of spirituals which occured in the late 19th century and gospel music which
developed in the 1930’s
Too many gaps…too much focus on rap…this person maybe under 40
definitely…maybe born in late 80’s or 90’s…nice try though 🙂
Afro-American music evolution pretty much ended in ’93 for sure. After
that, nothing but tasteless degenerate drivel cranked out for the sole
purpose of cashing in while the getting’s good. Hip-Hop really signaled the
end, to be honest. No need to be a professional musician or singer anymore.
Just dip into your parents’ vinyl collection for samples, grab yourself a
beat machine, and proceed to rap about whatever pops into that little brain
of yours. Cheap. Easy. Shameless. RIP black music.
This was awesome. How did you create this because I am trying to create
something similar to this for the black history program at my school -and
all I have been trying to use is PowerPoint-very difficult on a new
MacBook- any advice would be appreciated
@7harobed yeah I do realize I left some gaps and some music styles left
out. I was under a time constraint for the video length so I fit what I
could.
@MsFrasel2u I used windows movie maker, it’s a program that was on my Dell
desktop. Not sure if it’s on Macs but you could find a download online I’m
sure.
Ice Cube is an actor and a damn two faced hypocrite from rich neighborhood
he is not a gangster
bravo bravo!! now thats some history shit!
this helped me so much i love you for it :))
4:00 DAT ASS
I can’t understand how the musicians of North of America have decreased in
quality. Since the beginings until the 80’s or part of 90’s. They were real
artists. full of creativity, rhythms, dance, vocals and instruments, but
now they’re in the most of times like pathetic performers repeating
monotonous “tongue-twisters” with grumpy faces without a better script,
“talking, talking and talking”. I wouldn’t say that hip hop is part of
evolution. The hip hop means a critical decreasing.
You forgot to add Neo Soul.
black people make good music 🙂
After 3:20, you should’ve put “The End”.
I absolutly agree with you. probably the 70% of the awesomw music in North
America was produced by Afro North Americam people. I grew up listening and
admiring all this incredible and wanderful music in my country.
Hendrix was the Best! 🙂
man I never heard of Scott Joplin until this, that guy is crazy talented.
Very good video, very much information given, thanks!
Yes, there was a time when Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane were
actually cool among youths, but Miles Davis was even struggling to stay
relevant in the 70s with On The Corner. And the 80s was the height of
“smooth jazz” and Kenny G, which was quite possibly the nail in the coffin.
Music evolves, and will always be evolving.
I love jazz, but it had long lost its foothold with the young mainstream
before hip-hop came along.
Also, I’m in my 20s and went to a high school that had a huge jazz band
that was 50/50 black and white, which is commendable compared to how
unpopular jazz is in the mainstream.?
not all of us?
The problem isn’t the cost of instruments (and no you don’t need to spend
anywhere near $5,000 for a decent working horn), the problem is kids
nowadays stare slack-jawed and clueless at ANY object lacking a USB port.?
I’m not african american but I can see how this is true and generalises
across cultures. Wages in real terms have not increased for blue collar
workers and working class people for the last 30+ years, but the price of
instruments, rental of rehearsal space etc. etc. has rocketed. ?
Jazz often times…is something that happened to people…a lot of
musicians really wanted to get into playing the classical music. Charles
Mingus was a cello player untill high school. He switched to bass when
someone told him he’d never get a job in the symphony. Ron Carter too.
Cannonball Adderley wanted to be a classical clarinetist and he was pretty
much told the same thing…symphonies and orchestra don’t hire black
people. To this day not much has changed as there aren’t a great deal of
African Americans playing in professional symphonies and orchestras.
Private lessons and that sorta thing I think tend to be middle class sorta
thing. Music programs aren’t available and are the first things to be
cut..things have gotten so bad that they have cut music in the some of the
well to do places.?
There is no jazz station in South Florida. We used to have Love 94 but
it’s been gone for years. If you look on Sirius and XM, there’s
Watercolors (Main Stream), and Real Jazz. Two stations, that’s it. Yet
pop, rap, and hip hop have a bunch of stations. Get into a rental car
when visiting another city, and all the presets will be on rap stations.
You won’t find a jazz station on the FM dial. Jazz has become a niche,
people still love to play it, but the popularity has fallen off like
classical music.?
Everyone’s point is well taken. There are a lot of contributing facts in
the ball park.
Its all about exposure and resources. If the jazz community as a hole from
around the world come together, we can fix this and strengthen the voice of
this music we call jazz. As long as man has a soul there will be jazz. ?
an other area ? maybe just a question about money ? jug-jug times was the
best lesson we can learn about. if you want to play music, you can have the
time to sparing some money to buy the instrument you feel good to you.
that’s just a question of time. then, if you can buy it, you can see
further. with all my respect, Sir.?
Your over looking the internet??? Free lesions galore… On you tube! My
opinion, I think their not interested in jazz because, the music industry
doesn’t promote it… And it has fallen from main stream. Jazz brings
people together and is intellectual., lord knows race baiting and
divisions, works wonders for government control! The rap and hip hop is a
direct result of the dumbing down of the people! Music of today ( I say
that loosely) Illiterate and melody absent, a negative message and low
vibrational beat makes the youth nuts!! Plus they’re on a whole,lazy and
uninspired! ?
Jazz has largely become an art form which now exists, primarily, as a field
of study in academia. This is a large reason why we are not finding a lot
of African-American musicians playing jazz. When you look at the disparity
among black males (referencing black males specifically since males
generally dominate jazz) who are in college compared to other groups, you
find that it is simply a numbers game. Further, many of the great jazz
artists of yesterday are now professors at some of the world’s most
prestigious universities, and rightfully so. The only problem for a student
is affordability and ease of access. Take that with the “bling” obsession
in today’s society and it’s easy to conclude that many “musicians” are
looking to make a hit record that can make them millions of dollars. There
hasn’t been a jazz song in recent memory that has gone triple or quadruple
platinum.?
I agree +Joe Lackey hip hop is global at this point. The lines between
“types”, of people as far as how they view their own “groups” is blurred by
how available information is to everyone. What was once considered white is
emulated by blacks and vice versa. Kinda funny how that worked out lol?
They don’t play (or even listen/appreciate) classic blues music, either!
Where do you think the blues originated anyway? Jazz and blues might “go
away” if not picked up by youth. This pretty much happend with Dixieland,
bebop, big band (swing). These flavors of music traditions are only
appreciated by a few hard-core collectors. There is no new music in these
flavors being produced today!?
I think there is exposure to jazz. A lot of rap artists sample Jazz tunes.
For example, Kendrick Lamar’s Sing About Me. Where I am from there is still
an interest in rock but I do not find much interest in jazz unless it is
used as music to go to sleep to. ?
Yeah, I don’t think you can blame the lack of interest on no money for
horns or Reagan taking away dollars from arts programs. It’s a
cultural/financial thing alright but kids see rappers with limited skills
making ridiculous money while “jazz artists” barely get noticed. Jazz has
never been the pathway to millions but it’s even less now and the music
just doesn’t speak to them the way rap/hip-hop and other variants do.?
No disrespect at all but this is a fallacy. I know PLENTY of young jazz
players…& when I say young I do not mean early 40s. I’m talking about in
their teens and early 30s; from New York to DC. Even St. Louis; they will
not let you get away with putting anything smooth in their jazz. Forget
what mainstream is selling the children; Jazz lives on regardless.?