Topic: Son
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The son is used in Mexico to refer to a certain musical genre; this type of music uses traditional and religious form of musical instruments and dances. The rhythm of this type of music is senseless and dance must be part of such music. Sones share the same characteristics in different community music in the different parts of Mexico. The verses of the songs are very loose and lyrics to seem to flow swiftly but in a loose way. The tempo of the song amongst singers is very rapid and the beat patterns are always in sixes. To make the sones beautiful and attractive the Mexican uses dance to entertain the romantic people enjoying the music.
The history of the son is traced to be the mixture of the native Mexican and the Spanish. In the 1700’s dancing was introduced by churches to make the traditional church music live and entertaining to the viewers. Due to the independence of the Mexican people in the 1800’s, the son became rooted in several parts of Mexico and mostly the central Mexico where till date its roots are traced to. There are six varieties of Mexican son, son de mariachi is traced to have started from the western Mexico and spread all over the southern America. The state of Guerrero is believed to have had a beautiful type of son called the son guerrerense. Spanish had an impact on the Mexican music and so the son jarocho is a music genre that typically involves and portrays the Spanish music.
In conclusion, the American music mainly the South American music was built and modified to be very entertaining by use of the ancient instruments of music. The blacks too made a big impact by keeping the Africa custom of music and assimilating it to the current global music.
Topic: Article Summary
Music is the romantic and persuasive mode of passing out a message to the intended audience. In the past music has been used to teach the citizens of America good morals and to enhance peace between different races leaving in the American soil. Music has been rated by the media as the change and unitary factor of the blacks and the whites in the US. Precortesian music is termed as an outdated music because of its use of old instruments in their play. In the past the American curriculum had music as a compulsory subject in schools but in the recent days music is just pursued by any citizen who has a talent either in singing or in dancing. Ancient musical instruments and dances that relate to such music is not played anymore, pianos and guitars are the only said to past musical instruments used in the recent music. This has undermined the culture of both the blacks and the whites but united them to love a single tone of music.
The American music has different categories, these groups of music are categorized on the basis of two main type of music, the American music categories by their genre and another category based on the state itself. These categories are arranged in alphabetical order so that it is much easier if one is looking for a specific type of music. Music too goes with instruments and these instruments are subdivided into two main divisions the Cajun and the American Indian instruments used to entertain people when plying the music. The shape of music rather the characteristics of music emphasize on what message the music is giving the society or what is the core theme of the music itself.
In conclusion American music have built from a very vague musical genre, the current few musical instruments in the American music industry is due to the past history of few musical instrument in the American custom and culture.
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Bowie, L. C. (2011). African American musical heritage, 1600-present: An appreciation, historical summary, and guide to music fundamentals. United States: Xlibris.
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