African Americans through a video...

According to the video, there are many things I can relate with the African American Music class. The imagery is very explicit and easy to understand. Of course, the song is blues genre and the feelings the song transmits are very hard because the imagery helps to understand the African Americans’ situation. Many topics or facts that are related to this culture are very clear, at the beginning of the video, there was something I was really impressed for. It started like in one city like if it was Christmas and it was snowing, the video showed a sweet home with some comfortable furniture and all of those. But then the explanation about where the snow came from the sky was like directly the snow was cotton from the South part of the USA. The contrast of the social classes was really clear, while in the big cities there are well-formed homes and in the South the kids were the encharged of the cotton’s maintenance. I mean, it was like the poor African American Southern kids were working for giving a beautiful Christmas to the rich people in the North. 

Another situation showed in the video was the Ku Kux Klan racism and the incineration of the African

Americans. The women’s participation in the African American musica is really important, because in the blues’ beginnings were just men who interpreted this music, it is really a principal fact because in some way the genre discrimination in African Americans started to reduce thanks to took into account the women.  I think that the video’s colors influence the message, for the rich people the colors are really brilliant instead of the African Americans are dark and like in sepia; that reflects the social class and the participation in the population. The churches in the African Americans that weren’t allowed but the spirit of these people were harder than the prohibitions. The condition of the creation of blues music is really punished and the “wings” of the imaginations were broken.

For the African American culture was really important the end of discrimination era in the USA, thanks to the Martin Luther King’s pronunciation in that theme. Another thing is the relation of the physical condition of African Americans, what everyone think about them; that they are strong and really good for sports. In the video appears Usain Bolt, I think the African Americans are really proud of him because their culture is being recognized as superior in some important events in the world. The blues bars are really important for African Americans because those were the places in which they played their music and they weren’t judged, in spite of some troubles with racist policemen. Is like if this special genre was a painful genre, like it had to “sufrir” a lot. “The man makes money to buy other men” it’s really interesting this quote because I think is a hard critic for the way rich people “tartan” to the others. Finally the tempos in the song are very characteristic and show the way the blues genres tempos are. 

 

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