每日背诵第五期10
Another musical genre created by African-Americans, the blues, has heavily influenced jazz as well as rock and roll. About one third of jazz is in blues form with twelve measures in a song and uses ---"blue notes", the flatted third, fifth, and seventh notes of the musical scale. Jazz has inspired everything from slang such as “cool” and “jazzy”; to dance styles such as tap and swing; to art forms such as filmmaking and beat poetry. Its dynamic nature and strong individual performers have also given rise to different branches of jazz.
非洲裔美国人所创的另一种音乐类型──蓝调，对爵士乐和摇滚乐都有深远的影响。大约有三分之一的爵士乐采用蓝调形式，一首歌有12小节，使用“蓝音”，即把第三、五、七个音阶降半音（如Ｃ大调的Ｅ、Ｇ、Ｂ）。爵士乐激发了各种灵感，如：从俚语中的“酷”和“奔放”两个词，到舞蹈风格中的踢跶舞和摇摆舞（即兴爵士舞），以及电影制片和节拍诗等艺术形式。爵士乐富有活力的性质和有很强感染力的个人表演者也导致了不同流派爵士乐的产生。
(短文节选,本篇始于：“爵”代风华 )
