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Abstract:Along with the policy of reform and opening to the outside world, people in China have gradually accepted foreign music, among which Blues and Rap from Afro-Americans are the most popular. At the very beginning, the Whites don’t accept them and believe that they don’t belong to music, let alone art. As time flies, Blues and Rap spread rapidly in the U.S.A and then sweep the whole world. Howeve本论文由英语论文网www.51lunwen.org整理提供r, though the Black music has generally been accepted and beloved in the society, racism is still haunting the United States, the Blacks have not been treated fairly and equally as the Whites, and the social lives of the Blacks would not be improved substantially. Base on the analysis of the root and development of Blues and Rap and their social functions as voices of the Blacks, the paper tries to demonstrate the social conditions of the Blacks in America.

Blues; Rap; the blacks; discrimination; voice
 
摘　要:随着改革开放，在中国人们已经逐渐接受了外国音乐, 其中起源于美国黑人的布鲁斯和说唱是最为流行的音乐形式。很久以前，白人排斥它们并且不认为这属于音乐，更谈不上是艺术。但随着时间的流逝，布鲁斯和说唱已经流传于整个美国甚至全世界。然而尽管黑人音乐已经得到人们的认可和接受，但种族主义的幽灵仍然在美国游荡，美国黑人仍未能享受到同白人一样的公平待遇，其社会地位并没有得到真正意义上的提高。本文试图在分析布鲁斯和说唱的起源和发展以及其在各阶段所展现的作为黑人之声的社会功能的基础上，探讨美国黑人的社会生活状况。

Introduction

Blues and Rap are typical black music. Blues commonly expresses the blue and depressive emotions of the Blacks. The early musical composition picked up music subject matters of hard life, unfair destiny, lost ideal and destroyed love. Later, Blues began to express more individual emotions which were本论文由英语论文网www.51lunwen.org整理提供 produced in the period of industrial civilization, such as fear of death. Rap is a street music. Without support of major radio and music companies, Rap once struggled to spread around the black communities of New York, but very soon it swept over America. Most of its words are very incisive and powerful and mainly originate from criminal events of the society, especially the Black communities. In this sense, Rap is just a reflection of the reality of the black communities.
From the perspective of style, Blues and Rap are the combination of hard and soft music, and with metallic and strong rhythm, giving people an unprecedented impression. From the perspective of content, Blues and Rap are straight and bold with a clear stand. They are the very embodiment of the pursuit of freedom. From the perspective of social function, Blues and Rap deeply show the struggles of the Afro-Americans against racial discrimination and serve as voices of the Blacks. Based on the analysis of their birth, development in different periods of time and these characteristics, the paper demonstrates the voices of the Blacks and their social lives in a society where they are discriminated and deprived of equal rights with the Whites.

I. Blues as the Voice of the Blacks

A The Original Blues
When the Blacks were peddled from Africa to the New World, some special African musical elements were also brought to America. Those people were born with rhythm and extraordinary musicality. The excellent innate ability was inherited by their later generations who lived in the U.S.A.
The Blacks had a hard life in America, but the difficulties never wore away their aspiration of music. Instead, they found many ways to make music. Working, they sang songs; having a rest, they did it; being happy or sad, they did it; when a baby was born, they sang songs to celebrate; when somebody died, they also did it to see him off.<本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。