COOL STUFF 2!
So
one thing I found interesting is that one of my favorite Latin-American music genres
is cumbia. Cumbia is very up beat, very fun to dance to, usually has a nice repetitive
rhythm. My dad LOVES cumbia and will always play it around the house. I did a
little research and found out that the origin of cumbia comes from slavery days
and that the word cumbia is derived from the African word cumbe which means
dance. Later, in the region of Antioquia Colombia, the word caracumbe was used
by the African slaves who worked in the mines. Many latin American cultures
will pick up cumbia and make it their own and there are many twist and forms to
cumbia. Everyone is familiar with the Mexican-American singer Selena and she
has her own cumbia song that she sings and she is not Colombian at all so it is
cool to see all these cultures and layers using the same music but making it
their own. This Particular video is taken on a beach in Mexico but it is still cumbia and you can see how all the people are dancing and all the different instruments they use to create the sounds you typically hear in cumbia.
The
blues was a genre I did not know much about honestly. I kinda just bunched it
up with jazz because they are so similar that I did not even think to find out
where it came from but now that we have talked about it in class and I’ve
looked up more things on where the blues came from and it is even more
interesting to find out that it came from the south (right in our backyard).
While I was researching I came across Blind lemon Jefferson, he was an American
blues singer-songwriter and musician. Jefferson was from Texas and born blind. He
was very popular in the 1920’s and was known for is high-pitched voice and
guitar playing.
Last
but now least I found this really awesome female modern blues singer. We all
heard about all the amazing female blues singer on the documentary we watched
so I wanted to see if I could find any females blues singers from now and I
came across Shemekia Copeland and she is a blues, gospel and R&B singer and
has several blues award nominations. I think what caught my attention is that
is sounds a little like R&B and that’s one of my favorite music genres to
listen to.
Hi Jazmine!
ReplyDeleteI, too, have always been interested to know about the modern day singers that incorporate other cultures with our culture. Because of this, I enjoyed listening to Shemekia Copeland. You could certainly hear the blues genre with, like you said, a R & B flair. It was cool to find out about the Cumbia genre. It was entertaining to hear and I will try to listen to more of it. :)
I really enjoyed the Cumbia. I never heard of it before. You are right about jazz and blues being similar. I do like how you went further in depth and found a Shemekia Copeland. She was Awesome!
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Hi Jazmine!
ReplyDeleteWow, you're right, Shemekia Copeland can sing! I really like how its all meshed together.
That's also a sweet memory about the Cumbia music that your dad loves. My dad loves to blast his favorite music too.
The information you have about the Cumbia is so cool! I really enjoyed the video as well. I also really like the blues video.
ReplyDeleteSelena is a really good singers to. The videos that you posted are really amazing
ReplyDeleteIt's so interesting that, though cumbia sounds very Latin American, its cultural and etymological history is African. South American culture seems remarkably syncretic in comparison to all of the other music-cultures we have studied so far.
ReplyDeleteWow, Shemekia Copeland is really awesome! And yes, jazz and blues and earlier rock all sort of wind around and influence each other, and it can be a bit tricky to unthread all the different strands.
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