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From the blues to pop
從藍調音樂到流行音樂
Early jazz
早期爵士樂
Today I will take a brief look at how Western music progressed from the blues to pop.
今天我將簡要回顧西方流行音樂是如何從藍調走向流行音樂的。
Modern pop music has its roots in the folk songs of black Americans held in slavery.
現代流行音樂起源于奴隸時代的黑人民間音樂。
During the early part of the 19th century, black musicians used these folk songs to create a kind of music called the blues, because it had a tendency to be very sad.
19世紀早期，黑人音樂家使用民樂創作除了名為藍調的音樂，因為這種音樂傾向于悲傷的情感。
While the blues was popular, as a musical format it lacked variety and was too sad and slow to dance to.
盡管藍調音樂非常受歡迎，但作為一種音樂形式，它缺少變化，而且太傷感、節奏太慢，不適合跳舞時伴奏。
Thus, from the blues, there sprung up a faster, livelier kind of music called jazz.
于是，從藍調音樂發展出一種更輕快、更活波的音樂形式，叫做爵士樂。
Louis Armstrong, a black trumpet player and singer, was one of the fathers of jazz.
Louis Armstrong，一個黑人小號手和歌手，是爵士樂之父。
Unlike most musicians who played the music as it was written, he would change the music as he was playing it to reflect his feelings at the time.
和大多數照著曲子演繹音樂的音樂人不同，他在表演的時候根據當時自己的感情變換音樂形式。
Other musicians began to copy his style and the liberty he brought to his music.
其他的音樂人開始仿照他的表演讓以及他帶給音樂的自由化。
The ability to adapt the music while it is being played is one of the major characteristics of jazz.
音樂的適應能力是爵士樂的主要特征。
