The Importance Of Western Music

Music generally plays an important role in all of our lives. Western music reflects all of our supporting cultures. It is commonly passed down from generation to generation like any other type of music. Western music is shared among different religions, dance, and drama. All of which is used to reached out to a certain group of people that relates traditions. Western culture is shared among genres like: Gospel, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Rap, Reggae, and so much more. Each genre shares characteristics and beliefs of their own. “According to Kerman, long before European settlers and African slaves arrived here; Native Americans had their own music style (Kerman, 2012).” Native Americans as well as other nationalities would create music to tell their

This type of music is a genre of American protestant music, rooted in the religious revivals of the 19th century, which developed in different directions within different races. Gospel music is ecstatic choral singing during church services, with high flying sopranos over instrumentals and the congregation joining. Sippie Wallace is an African American known for her gospel singing and blues (Kerman, 2012).” Gospel music came about during the same time as blues and ragtime. Some of you may not know the term ragtime, like you know blues. Ragtime is similar to jazz, which was a style of piano playing developed by African Americans in the early 1900s. Referring back to gospel, this genre used various instruments. For example, tambourine, organ, piano, drums, bass guitar are widely used in gospel songs and are widely contributed to Christian worship as a whole. In the beginning, gospel was generally directed by African Americans but now the genre has become

Reggae is a combination of other genres. It is a style of Jamaican popular music, blending blues and rock. This style embodies in image and sound, and cultural identity (Wates, 2014). I don’t know about you, but listening to reggae makes me want to dance. Reggae style of music is definitely upbeat. This genre has the some of the same basic instrumentation as Gospel, Rock, and Blues. For example, trumpets, flute, trombones, saxophones, and others are commonly used while making reggae music. There are additional instruments used in this genre but are less likely used in other genres which are: scrapers, claves, quiccas, djembes, and others (Turk, 2014). According to (Literacy, 2014) Bob Marley was the first internationally known reggae artist. It’s important to remember that Jamaican Reggae is popular throughout Africa, for the exact same reason why it is popular throughout the world (Wates,