Afro-American Culture: From Slave Music to Jazz and Blues American music today is a wide range of genres. Most of the genres has its root in the music the slaves brought with them in the beginning of the seventeenth century. Genres like Jazz, blues, Gospel and Hip-Hop, which is well-known all over the world today, is mainly influenced by the African-American culture and music. Especially the work songs, or the “hollers”, that the slaves sung while working on the fields and the negro spirituals, which
the craft and want to pursue a career in the music industry. It still amazes me how even after nineteen years I still have so much more music techniques, theory, etc. to learn down the road. Being a musician has really brought the need for motivation when it has come to singing solo and in ensembles. Ever since I was a little girl around the age of five music interested me because my whole family could sing and we would all gather around and sing gospel songs to my great grandmother when she would
to promote soft-drink consumption by hiring performer artists in television advertisements. Pepsi contracted music stars like Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. It is in the course of this television campaign that the 60-second ads became established as the new