ROCK MUSIC (2)

The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones is a british rock band from London. They are considered one of the biggest and most influential band of all history of the rock, being the grouping that laid the bases of the contemporary rock. Counting from its begginings with the favour of the critic, some of its materials are considered among of the best of all time

The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. They became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential band of the rock. Rooted in skiffle, beat, and 1950s rock and roll , the Beatles later experimented with several musical styles , ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. 

ROCK MUSIC (1)

In the 1950, in the United States, adolescents sought new sounds, new sensations. For the first time, a music went directly to them: Rock and Roll. Their beginnings combine elements of the blues and African-American music. In times of salvery in United States black communities developed a musical potentialin wich religius songs an rhythm of their own dominated 

                                                                                                                

TYPES OF MUSIC CINEMA

DIEGETICAL MUSIC
Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film.Voices of the characters sounds emitted by the objects of the story.Music represented as coming from instruments in the space of history (= source of music)Diegetic sound is any sound presented as coming from source within the world of the film.

NON-DIEGETIC MUSIC

Non-diegetic music its composition is not subject to the presence of any sound source on the screen. Consequently, the composer enjoys freedom in the choice of instrumental template. Non-diegetic music has its main purpose to emphasize the poetic and / or expressive nature of the projected images

FEATURES MUSIC FILM
Give the true meaning of a scene. Thanks to its subjective nature and its ability to created mood music is a esential to introduce the reading of the film.

THE TRANSITION TO SOUND CINEMA

Warner Bros was the first studio to accept sound as an element in film production. The studio released The Jazz Singer in 1927, wich market the first commercially successful sound film.

                                                    

















Silent films were still the majority of features released in both 1927 and 1928. But in the next years the sound cinema became majority. It was a Revolution.
We have wathched Singing in the Rain to understand this revolution. It changed the film technique (microphones, sound and image synchronized, etc.) and the acting techniques (natural and good voice, diction teachers, etc.).
                                            

The Silent Cinema And Hollywood

By 1912 major American Film Companies had set up production near in Los Angeles. Los Angeles became the capital of the film industry.Director David Wark Griffith was the first to make a film in Hollywood (17- minute short film in Old California).Griffith is very inportant for the cinema because he invented the cinematographic language. How can I tell a story with images?.


                                     


                                 

Charles Chaplin was a famous actor and director in this time. His films typically follow the Charlot's efforts to survive in the hostile world.The character lives in poverty and is frequently treated badly,but remains kind and upbead,defying his social position, he strives go to be seeenn as a gentelman.In music class we have watched The Kid.

Another fimmaker in Silent Cinema from Hollywood were Buster Keatonand Harld Lloyd. We have watched different films ofthese directors and they are pretty funny.

African-American's Music:Work Songs,Gospel,Blues,Ragtime and Jazz

Africa-American people need to express themselves through the music.They are a culture very musical. From African roots they conserved a powerful rhythm, meanwhile they learned from de Western culture the traditional harmony. In music class we are studying different examples of African-American music.


The work songs were the songs that the African-American slaves sang in their jobs.

African-American people are also a very religious.In their churches they sing spirituals or gospel songs.In these songs they express their joy of belive in God..

Blues is a word that means sadness, nostalgia or melancholy.In African-American music. a blues is a sad, nostalgic an melancholic song. These songs are profanes, not religious, and they talk about life and problem ofAfrican-American people.

African-American's Music History.

In music,we are studying African-American music. We will listen work songs, spirituals,blues,ragtime and jazz. To understand them we have to know the terrible history of African-American people.

From 1500to 1800 a lot of African people were kidnapped and forced to be slaves.
African slaves were sold in American countries like Cuba,Jamaica,Brazil and United States.

Slaves were obligatedb to work in the worst jobs, mainly in the cotton and sugar fields.They were treated like animals, how if theywere not humans beings.African slaves had to forget their names,their religions and their culture.

During 19th Century, slavery was forbidden in American countries. In United States, Abraham Licoln was the president that freed the slaves.From then,African-American are free.

But they did not have the same rigths,and suffered episodes of racism.It was necessary the fight of more people, like Malcolm X  or Martin Luther King,to realise the civil equality.

But,have the racismin the world disappeared?.