Welcome back.
Now, we're gonna talk about another segment or section of Black culture, which is called Black music.
I wanna talk about three main topics today.
One is gospel, one is blues and one is jazz.
(This is) just to give you an idea or understanding of what these three forms are.
The first one is gospel.
Most people wanted to know what is gospel music.
Well, actually gospel is a message concerning Christ.
It is also derived from the word in Old English, "god spell", which means good news, good tidings.
So, gospel basically, when people sing gospel, it's a song of joy.
So, when you hear someone singing the gospel word, it means they're singing of happiness, of joy,
of something good in their life that is happening to them.
So, basically that's when people go to church, they sing gospel to sing to the God to thank the God for their life,
thank the God for being here, thank Him for the wonderful things they have in their life.
So, gospel is a feeling, an expression or basically shouting out loud to tell everyone,
"I am so thankful and happy for what I have."
God spell = joy = happiness.
So, gospel is a song of happiness.
The second form that we talk about is blues.
Now, as gospel is a sound or a singing form of happiness, blues is quite the opposite.
Blues is a song of sorrow, of telling someone, expressing to people that maybe today wasn't a good day.
Life isn't that good.
Oh, I lost my girlfriend today.
Oh, I lost my dog who died today.
But, blues doesn't only mean to be sad only.
It's also a release of energy.
So, when you sing of these sad things you have, it makes you feel better,
because you're expressing your feeling, you're expressing the sadness, so you can release the sadness.
Now, blues singers use a certain kind of form of music when they did their blues singing:
harmonicas, also guitars, or pianos.
Now, blues comes from the southern part of America, where they basically expressed to people
today wasn't a good day, but maybe tomorrow will be a better day.
The third one is jazz.
Now jazz, which comes from New Orleans around the early twentieth century,
is developed from a form of instrumental expression,
which the form is to present to people around you a beautiful art form of rhythmatic sounds
with different notes, melodies, percussions, trembles, hi-hats.
Expressing your feeling through instruments.
So, whereas gospel, you sing from your heart using your voice.
Blues, you sing from your heart using harmonicas, guitars and keyboards.
Jazz, expressing your feeling through sound and instruments.
As I might not have talked too much about jazz, but jazz is a very strong form of Black culture.
So, all three of these elements express Black feeling, which means they are very strong parts of Black culture.
So, we'll talk about some more forms of Black culture in our next segment, which is hip hop fashion.
Until then.