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Africanization Africanization of European musical taste

By placing the analysis in musical taste put us in the heart of the problem. The Africanized musical taste will have consequences and, in turn, must be reasons, reasons that explain this trend in European musical taste.

For us it is legitimate to talk about Africanization of musical taste is clearly essential to talk about the African character (or Africanized according to gender) of the music itself that Europeans massively listen to and follow. And for this, according to the line of action that this page is marked, we must give appropriate. In this respect, consideration and African music that Europeans hear (and can not be called ever European music) can be shown (and analyzed) from two perspectives:

1) Morphological, manifested in the following

- strain tempo (speed that must be executed a piece of music) that becomes too low (as in the blues) or too high (with the jazz, rock and roll or hip hop), regarding the tempo tends to be the characteristic of European music (allegro),

- presence of investment rhythm

- existence of vocal improvisations (as in rap or salsa),

- emphasis on percussion and

- use and abuse of syncope (prolonged sound of a note placed on the weak or semi-strong of a measure on same or higher intensity), very typical of jazz and Afro-American music in general. To understand this we must know the difference between harmony, a concept that would point the vertical aspect of music, simultaneously in time and tune, referring to the horizontal aspect, the sequence of notes in time. The harmony is unique in European music, no other music possesses. Therefore, the polyphony is characteristic of European music: polyphony and music in which different notes are executed simultaneously and coordinated.

2) Genealogical

The blues

(sadness), characterized by improvisation and appeared in the last decades of the nineteenth century in the southern states of the United States and among blacks, there is the jazz the late nineteenth century. By 1940, jazz is reached rhythm and blues (also known at the time as race records). From here and after the incorporation of electric guitar, circa 1950 appears rock-and-roll (rhythm and blues with a very high tempo, made by whites and where racial issues are ignored.) Since the late 1960's rock and roll come multitude of genres: rockabilly , heavy metal, punk , progressive rock, disco , etc.

The pop , appeared around 1950, comes from the jazz mixed with British folk songs themselves. It involves the emergence of a music with a simple melody, harmony and simple subjects very low and shallow, for a broad public and nonprofit purposes only.

The hip hop and rap arise at the end of the decade to 1960 among blacks in New York. The sauce also appears in New York, but in neighborhoods inhabited immigrants from the Antilles.