2012最新版高中英语课时讲练通配套课件：Module4《Music Born in America》（外研版选修7）推荐.ppt

备课资源·参考 模块质量评估 Music of the United States 　　The music of the United States reflects the country’s multi-ethnic(多民族的) population through a diverse array of styles. Rock and roll, blues, country, jazz, pop, techno, and hip hop are among the country’s most internationally-renowned genres. The United States has the world’s largest music industry and its music is heard around the world. Since the beginning of the 20th century, some forms of American popular music have gained a near global audience. 　　Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the United States and played its first music. Beginning in the 17th century, immigrants from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Germany and France began arriving in large numbers, bringing their new styles and instruments. African slaves brought musical traditions, and each subsequent wave of immigrants contributed to a melting pot. 　　Much of modern popular music can trace its roots to the emergence in the late 19th century of African American blues and the growth of gospel music in the 1920s. The African American basis for popular music used elements derived from European and indigenous music. The United States has also seen documented folk music and recorded popular music produced in the ethnic styles of the Ukrainian, Irish, Scottish, Polish, Hispanic and Jewish communities, among others. 　　Many American cities and towns have vibrant music scenes which, in turn, support a number of regional musical styles. Along with musical centers such as Seattle, New York City, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Chicago, Nashville, Austin, and Los Angeles, many smaller cities have produced distinctive styles of music. The Cajun and Creole traditions in Louisiana music, the folk and popular styles of Hawaiian music, and the bluegrass and old time music of the Southeastern states are a few examples of diversity in American music. 　　The music of the United States can be characterized by the use of syncopation(节奏) and asymmetrical(不对称的) rhy