The+Human+Condition

For years music has been a huge cultural importance for humans all over the world. From different kinds of music including, Rock, Pop, Country, and today's more popular electronic music genres, there will always be music that impacts the way humans feel. In the 1930's the music that influenced the culture in America more than anything were that of Blues, Jazz, Classical, and Swing music. This music really shows how people can be affected be affected by music, or even how the music can be affected by our lives. Music tends to bring out the innermost feelings of a person, even when that person tends to be very distant from their own feelings. Throughout history music has either been about something to do with making rain fall by dancing or to encourage a Gladiator to enter the arena with thundering blows from the drums. This shows that music has an influence on our actions, and our actions have and influence on music.

Therefor, if a musician is feeling down he will probably produce music that shows how sad he is, in turn that will effect listener's and sadden them. The music in the 1930's that spoke to someone's feeling like none other was Blues music. Blues musicians were uncanny at being able to convey their emotions through their music. This attribute made their listener's feel the same as they did, saddened. Jazz music conveyed a different emotion than Blues music did. Jazz is a music that is normally upbeat, but can be a slower kind of happy. Musicians in this era of music were extremely talented at what they did. They spoke their emotions to the audience through their instruments. This had an effect on the crowd and it was nearly impossible to go to a Jazz concert with a frown on the face. Music

Dictionary definition- vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion:
 * The definition of Music can be interpreted in many ways. Music is organized sound. It has strong heritage and culture. All music starts with pitch and rhythm, the culture and background of different time-frames and places are what make music distinct to different areas around the world.
 * Music is also very emotional. The pitch and rhythm portrayed in music can make a person happy, sad, or just about anything in between. The rhythm of a song can catch someone’s emotions just as lyrics can.
 * Music is an art and very poetic. The lyrics of a song can be more powerful than the rhythm. It’s from the lyrics that people can connect meaning to different types of music.