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1、Module 4 Music Born in America Section Introduction & Reading-Pre-readingJazz, which is considered Americas classical music, dates back to the early 20th century when African Americans brought it to the public. Jazz music is a combination of improvised solos, blues notes and a deep rhythmical st
2、ructure, characterized by brass instruments (铜管乐器), guitars, drums, pianos and keyboards. Some of the most famous jazz musicians include Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday.Historians trace Rock n Roll to 1954. This type developed by combining rhythm, blues and country music. A couple of
3、 the original Rock n Roll artists included Bill Haley and His Comets and Elvis Presley. People could dance to it, and the type became hugely popular with teenagers.Rap music took the music scene by storm when it developed a new appearance in the 1980s. The origin dates back to Africa where tribes ho
4、nored “men of words”. When slaves were brought over in the 1700s and 1800s, the workers mixed American music with the words of their motherland. Another source of this type is Jamaican folk stories, where people would tell poems and stories in rhyme.Traditional folk music is passed on from generatio
5、n to generation. This style is associated with music of the working class. Folk singers arent usually in search of profit and they dont have to be good singers to sing folk songs.Western Swing was developed in Oklahoma and Texas in the 1930s. The style began to catchon with the public in the 1940s.
6、The music is a combination of a big band, blues. Dixieland, and jazz. The music used a Hawaiian steel (钢的) guitar and drums in its early years. Bob Willis and Milton Brown are considered two of the types top pioneers.Section_Introduction & Reading Prereading原文呈现 读文清障All You Need to Know About Hip Ho
7、pPart 1What is hip hop and how did it start?Hip hop is an American cultural movementwhich started in the 1970s at block partiesin New York， especially in a district called the Bronx. There are four main aspects of hip hop: breakdance and graffiti art plus two types of hip hop music DJing and rapping
8、. Rapping is also known as MCing (coming from the term masterofceremonies). The DJs at block parties in the 1970s played a lot of soul music and they noticed that people preferred the percussion breaks in the songs because they were the best parts to dance to. So they started repeating the percussio
9、n breaks. This is a techniqueused by DJs in Jamaica. There were a lot of Jamaicans in New York who brought the idea with them. At first, they played a lot of reggae.hip hop嬉蹦乐movement /muvmnt/n运动in the 1970s在20世纪70年代也可以用in the 1970s表示。at block parties在街区舞会上which引导定语从句，修饰an American cultural movement
10、。especially adv.尤其过去分词短语作后置定语，修饰district。breakdance n霹雳舞graffiti /grfiti/n涂鸦；乱涂乱抹plus prep.并且，和(and also)DJing and rapping流行音乐和说唱乐MCing/emsiI/n司仪；节目主持soul music灵乐percussion/pkn/n打击乐器dance to伴着跳舞dance to music伴着音乐跳舞technique/teknik/n技巧；手法过去分词短语作后置定语，修饰technique。who引导定语从句，修饰Jamaicans。reggae /regeI/n雷盖
11、你需要了解的所有有关嬉蹦乐的知识第一部分什么是嬉蹦乐？嬉蹦乐是怎样开始的？嬉蹦乐是一场美国文化运动，始于20世纪70年代纽约的街区舞会，特别是布朗克斯区。嬉蹦乐包含四个主要方面：霹雳舞、涂鸦艺术和另外两种嬉蹦乐音乐流行音乐和说唱乐。说唱乐也被称为节目主持(源于masterofceremonies这个词语)。20世纪70年代街区舞会上音乐主持人播放很多灵乐，他们注意到大家更喜欢乐曲中的打击乐，因为打击乐最适合跳舞。于是，他们开始重复播放这些打击乐。这是牙买加音乐主持人使用的一种技艺。纽约有许多牙买加人，他们从自己的国家带去了有关音乐的理念。起初，他们播放许多雷盖音乐。Part 2What was
12、 the big breakthrough？DJ Herc, one of the most popular Jamaican DJs at the time， noticed that New York audiences didnt really like reggae music, so he started playing other kinds of music, including rock and disco music. The percussion breaks were usually short, but Herc and other DJs made them long
13、er by using two records on two turntables， side by side. Some of the DJs began speaking and shouting while the music played. Shouting DJs became known as MCs. And so the style of music known as rap was born.At the beginning， MCs often performed for hours, repeating words and phrases and then improvi
14、sing. Later, they experimented with different vocal and rhythmicapproaches， using rhyming words， often words from AfricanAmerican culture. At the same time， people started breakdancing at block parties.MC Dark Star remembers the first time he heard a rap singer. “The moment I heard it”， he said, “I
15、knew it was a completely new kind of music.”breakthrough n突破make a breakthrough取得突破at the time在那时，当时audience n听众，观众(集合名词)including prep.包括including AA includedrock and disco music 摇滚乐和迪斯科音乐made them longer使它们(播放时间)更长此处为“make宾语adj.”结构turntable/tnteIbl/n(唱机的)转盘；唱盘side by side并排；并肩shoulder to shoulder 肩并肩地while意为“在的过程中”，引导时间状语从句。at the beginning起初repeating words and .是现在分词短语作伴随状语。improvise /ImprvaIz/v即兴演奏；即兴表演experiment with尝试vocal /vkl/adj.嗓音的；与嗓音有关的rhythmic/rImIk/adj.有节奏的rhythm/rIm/n节律；节奏；律动to the rhythm of随着的节奏ap
