Jazz Should Belong To African American Culture

Group 1 This article is about how jazz is the voice of the American soul. The author of this article believes jazz does not belong to a single race but it belongs to all of the American people. He believes this because jazz unified the blacks and the whites into a melting pot of culture. That belief of a melting pot of culture is what the United States as seen as. He also believes it belongs to all Americans because it represents the culture in the sound. The sound is a little hurried and vulgar like the American life. This author believes that jazz represents the soul of the American culture so jazz should belong to everybody that sees themselves as part of that culture.

Group 2 In this article the author believes that jazz should belong to the African American community. One reason he believes this is because it was created and popularized by African Americans that lived in the south like Louis Armstrong. Another reason he believes that jazz belongs to African American community is because it is created by their history. African Americans brought their rhyme and rhythm with them when they were brought to America to be used as slaves. Jazz music is an extension of that history using the culture they brought over and there past and jazz was an outlet of those things. Since the history of jazz is so connected to the history of the African American community

Whether it is a band or orchestra they own the music because they are the people creating or evolving the genre. These groups are expressing themselves in the music and in the art of jazz so they are the ones who get to lay claim to the genre. The author believes that jazz should belong to anybody who feels connected with the music and plays it in their own style and that jazz would not be what it is if not for the musicians that had to work and fight to play what the style of music they want to