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What happend in black society, guys are aspiring to become Rappers, rather than get into jazz or good music?
The young people , many are solely rap listeners. some of them want to be rappers, and that’s it. It used to be people liked to learn instruments and sing…but what’s happening these days?
I’m not part of the black community but i see MTV and stuff like that..and the music promoted by MTV producers and the black community there is Hip hop or rap. that’s it.
Where’s the jazz, where’t the blue grass, where’s the blues, where’s the soul music…or rock or whatever?
Much as with anything good, greed and familiarity has that tendency to corrupt it.
It hasn’t so much as left all of black culture, but it has diminished significantly…much as R&B and the Blues. But jazz has gotten pretty much out of the mainstream America as well. I mean there are alot of talented jazz musicians today, both black and white (latino and asian as well), but go by your local music stores and count how many aisles/sections/racks are dedicated to jazz or blues, then compare it with rock, rap, or country. This isn’t knocking these genres at all. I’m a black man and I listen to these as well, but I primarily listen to jazz. I am finding it is getting harder and harder to find ANY jazz to purchase, unless it is online. It isn’t profitable, but for better or worse, rap is. Especially since you really don’t need to put in alot of capital to make a return. You sample a beat, you put some words to it (truth or lies), put it on a tape, and you basically started your career. Jazz can get a little expensive…now. Even at a pawn shop, a decent trumpet will run about $300. Then the time to put in on learning the instrument. It adds up. Plus when was the last time you saw any jazz musician in a video with good looking girls on stage with them, and them driving expensive cars.
Next, you don’t have the venues for jazz, or R&B for that matter, as 20 or 30 years ago. Except in a few key cities, very few American cities have places a person can go to and listen to jazz. But other genres can pack in stadiums. Promoters are going to promote where the money is for them and their clients.
Conversely, jazz has lost that stigma of being “shocking”. When it first started, much like rap right now, it was “appalling” to listen to Louis Armstrong or Count Basie, unless you were in the right mindset. If you were a white kid what better way to rebel against mom and dad then to listen to black musicians play “awful” jazz. Then something happened to where mom and dad started liking it or the kids grew up and jazz became somewhat mainstream. The kids started learning it, and became as good playing it. It happened with R&B and now rap. (Look at Eminem)
Nowadays, jazz is looked as not so much the music of kooks, but as much a sign of affluence as listening to Beethoven or Bach. You have the stigma of younger kids not getting it, and rap and heavy metal are going to that point as well. (Try talking to an 18 yo about Kurtis Blow or Quiet Riot or Kiss.)
We could blame MTV, but what would be the point. They were against rap in the 80′s as well. It wasn’t until you had Run DMC play alongside Aerosmith that it really started taking off.
Jazz isn’t dead. Just go to Europe. They still love it. But as a “black” art form, it has taken a hiatus. I have a feeling, in a few years, rap will have left being a predominently “black” art form, to being taken over by the next new music form.
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