Jazz Festivals

Well, its all about incoherence and how out of that incoherence you can actually make out meaning and find coherence. This is the story of jazz and it is actually a reflection of the times that jazz had actually come into being. If you come to know of the history of jazz then it would no longer be a mystery as to why jazz is so incoherent.

Jazz, as we all well know, is a very popular form of music and even today it holds a different place in the hearts of all music lovers. However the history of jazz is not so smooth. Basically, it is a song genre which came into being when the world wars were raving destruction all around us and the entire human civilization was in chaos. So Jazz is one form of music which is truly modernist so to say. Just like it had become difficult to make a meaning out of human life in the times similarly, it is difficult to make meaning out of jazz.

The words, the music, everything about this music genre is extremely incoherent. Sometimes, when you are not so enamoured and are not in the mood for music, try and listen to jazz, it would be nothing more than a cacophony, much like what happens in a zoo. However, in a world which was at the verge of being destroyed, every country trying to develop nuclear war heads, countries devastated by two world wars, it was really something which made complete sense. The music genre was, as it were, a reflection of the times in which it was developed.

To find out whether jazz is really so disjointed and haphazard you can check by yourself listening to jazz music on the web. Jazz does not only come in the form of songs but there are highly expert instrumentals too which will help you see the coherence in the midst of all the incoherence. But, did you know that the jazz was actually a music form of the blacks, the dark skinned people, mostly the Afro Americans?

Jazz is a perfect mirror through which you can view the modernist era. One can also study the entire history of the world wars through the advent of this genre of music. You will find distinct expressions of love, of sorrow of great dilemmas and ultimately depressions which ate away at the hearts of people. It also is a music culture which reflects the after war affects, the paralyzing effects of war and the mass destruction that it had caused. The war had created a generations of men stunned by the experience of war, generations of men unable to go back to their normal lives after fighting for their countries in the war. Some survived, but most of them were crippled, inefficient for further activity and broken from the inside. Jazz presents to you the broken down of images of these men, the pathos that reigned in every household of every country which had engaged in war.

Keeping this history in mind listen to jazz from the internet and you will be able to hear distinctly how in the midst of all this suffering, all the worlds falling apart and every thing reigning is a state of confusion, jazz actually made some sense.

By: Jean-Louis Vosgien