The Spirits Of African Americans In Jazz And Its Redemptions

Jazz, without any exaggeration, that one of the most popular music genres in the modern American society does enchant a certain mount of audience who listen the graceful rhythms, enjoy the moving and sympathetic lyrics, and appreciate the beautiful melody beyond the words. However, jazz as one of the most successful music creature of African-American has its own humble beginning, fluctuating development and golden age, at the same time jazz reflecting the culture of the African Americans, which is very important part of the black culture and entire American culture. Music being as one of the soul of black culture, while jazz is cradled from the real environments and history that black people experiencing. It could be said without any exaggeration that it is not authentic American culture studying without researching the black culture with music elements involted. In this paper, it mainly discusses that the spirits of African American culture from jazz music which play a very significant part in American culture while created by African American, as well as the African American get inspirations and encouragement while identifying and fighting for their own black culture in American culture and their redemptions through jazz music.