Jazz music

In my music class we learned that the roots of modern jazz music date back to ancient Africa. Tribe rituals involved chanting, and singing melodic lines. When Africans were shipped to the Americas under the contract of slavery many of these tunes were put to rhythm, including clapping and banging on drums, hence - soul jazz emerged. This was largely implemented in southern Negro Baptist congregations. Instrumental jazz music started with the emergence of ragtime piano solos. Scott Joplin was one of the most famous traveling African-American pianists. It is known that as he traveled into certain towns he would be met by members of the Ku Klux Klan who told him that if he played in that particular town he would be killed. That’s pretty messed up. The blues is another type of music that evolved after the abolition of slavery. It has a very specific melody pattern that is related to the ground bass. The subject matter of the blues is all about your troubles. You make a list of all the things that are going wrong in your life. The only other rule of the blues is that the first line of text is always repeated.