L'industrie du rap aux Etats-Unis est-elle dans la filiation de l'industrie de la soul à l'époque du label Motown ?

Mémoire Arts & média Musique et danse

Date de publication :

06/10/2009

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Anglais

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40 pages

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Résumé :

The African heritage is fundamental in black American music. The African American population, by its very name, asserts its Africanity. The influence of African music is so strong that to the rest of the world, black music represents the spirit of the United States. It is quite difficult to date the birth of the black American music. We can say that it was in the XIXth century when African slaves have begun to be influenced in their music by their experience in the New World. In fact, as for Southern and Cashmore, the most important thing in black music is not the color of the skin but rather the social conditions of Blacks and their common experience of struggle (slavery, exile, discrimination) in the United States. A sense of cohesion emerges from this, with a unity of purpose and identity.

Black music reflects the conscience of Afro-American people, their rejection of their marginalized situation and their wish to make things change. As for Stephens, soul, a fusion of music that owes much to blues and gospel, is an ideology and a call for hope. The form and content of the songs had changed to create a new distinctive music style oriented in the African tradition but reflecting some aspects of white music. Afro-American music was born and had found diverse expressions in gospel, blues, jazz, ragtime and latter, Rhythm & Blues and rap.

Those musics share common features but different places of birth. The blues was born in the Mississippi Delta, the jazz in New Orleans. Since the industrial period, a lot of black music comes from the North, former « hostcountry » for the Blacks who were hoping for a better life. Unfortunately, those migrations often end by the isolation of the African Americans in ghettos where frustration grew up. Migrations to other states led often to new mixing between white and black music. We have talked about tradition and in fact we have to say that the church is one of the most important place where black music evolved. It was where change and continuity mingle to give birth to gospel. Is there an heritage of motown today ? This question is obviously related to the Afro-American music influence on the music industry as a whole. Craig Werner points out this fact when he says that « the best music of the eighties grew out of the blues impulse, insisting on the reality of brutal experience over and against nostalgic fantasies and self-righteous lies ».