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=**//Welcome to Ethnomusicolygy //**=



**Orange stream( Orange Nation) did a research and study on ethnomusicology. Ethnomusicology is the study of social, cultural aspects of music and dance from every country and religion. In our class we are doing a re** **search and study on African Am** **erican cultural music. We have done much research and found much of the music that was before 1990's or later in 1990's to 2000's. For our last task we had to pick out three of the songs that we think are best to descri** **be or related to African American cultural. The three songs we had to pick can be any songs from anywhere and tim** **e, the other song have to be from 1970 or before, also the last song it from a Non-English speaking country. Below you can continues to go down my page to check out the three songs that I picked as an example and how each song is related to African American culture.**

Song #1uch =**"You** **'re not alone" Michael Jackson** = [|Youre Not Alone - Michael Jackson] media type="file" key="You Are Not Alone.mp3"

__**Song:**__ "You're not alone" ( 1970's ) __**Musicians and singers:**__ __**Genres:**__ R&B & Soul __**Synopsis:**__ This song explain about a person life, and the struggle that they going though. This is similar to the blues that were created after the civil war. The blues were used to describe the difficulty of life, also in the blues they used the A,A,B pattern, which in this song you might find a very similar pattern to it. Also in this song there is a mix of hip hop, it have a rhythm and a beat that repeat though out the song. In hip hop is also something that a person used to tell a story about their life/ or other people lives. After listen to this song, you will get a feel of a hip hop mix blues, this is why this song is a relation to African American music.
 * Michael Jackson

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Song # 2

= "Chuck Berry Johnny_b_goode" = = = __**Time :**__ 1958 __**Artist:**__ Chuck Berry == =  = __**Genres :**__ Rock & Roll media type="file" key="01 -Chuck Berry Johnny B. Good.mp3" =<span style="color: rgb(27, 0, 255); font-size: 130%;"> =

__**Synopsis:**__ This song was writing by Chuck Berry, this song was one of the rock and roll that he created. This song related to African American music because it was called a blues and country music which we now call rock and roll. Chuck Berry was one of the African American famous writer at the time that blues and country was popular. Audiences from the 50's-60's liked to dance to the sounds of music like country or blues. This song created by him so it was one of the African American music and related to African American music in the early of 1960s. =__**Lyric:**__=

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Song # 3 ( From another language ) =<span style="text-align: left; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; color: rgb(37, 9, 251); font-size: 140%;">"emilie_simon_desert" (French) =

__**Song name:**__ Desert __**Time:**__ 2004 __**Artist:**__ Emilie Simon __**Genres:**__ R&B media type="file" key="06 Emilie Simon _ Desert (TC Rem.mp3"      =__Synopsis:__  = ==== Many people would ask, how is this song relate to African American music. However, even if the lyric or the word is not in English and many of us may not understand with out reading the translation. This song can be relate to African American music in other ways. For example, the beat and the rhythm is like R&B because of the A,A,B pattern that the first two stanza is the same and the last one is different. In this song, the first two stanza she repeat the same lines of asking a question, and the third one is answer to her self. Also the instruments in the background of the drum that sound like bongos and the flows of the beat is almost like a blues because the beat repeat the same and slowly. This is why the song related to African American music in a way, and I chose it because it make the audience want to listen to the song and think deeply to the background music to see the relationship. ====

Lyric: (French)
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__**Lyric : (Enligh)**__
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