Monday 21 December 2009

Pop Culture
Unit 1
Part 2
Music and Nightlife
George Gershwin

Blues, jazz,rock, country and rap are kinds of popular music originated in the USA. Jazz and blues have their roots in African - American folk music. Some American composers brought the rhythms of popular music like jazz into their works.
George Gershwin (1898-1937) wrote Porgy and Bess, an opera about poor black people in the South.

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