英语专业毕业论文-论布鲁斯音乐的社会影响与文化意义（精品）.doc

论布鲁斯音乐的社会影响与文化意义英语专业英语指导教师摘要布鲁斯又称蓝调音乐，是二十世纪六十年代发源于美国南方腹地的一种黑人音 乐，是一-种能使美国黑人在受压抑的环境下较安全的表情达意的艺术形式，表达人们 感叹生活，发泄愤怒，追求爱情的真实情感作为美国黑人种族文化的典型代表，布 鲁斯音乐也是研究黑人文学和黑人文化的重要依据本文通过对布鲁斯音乐的形成和发展，及美国黑人的生活环境，社会地位，对文 化艺术的贡献的介绍，分析了布鲁斯音乐的社会意义和文化价值对美国黑人来说，布鲁斯音乐不仅能治愈创伤，也是一-种生存技能，同吋也带给 了他们至高的荣誉在过去的几百年里，美国黑人受到的不仅是身体上的痛苦和折磨, 他们的心灵也受到了严重的创伤布鲁斯音乐在他们最无助的吋候俨然成为了一种解 决心理疼痛和继续生活下去的良药对整个世界来说，布鲁斯咅乐的存在和发展不仅体现了其文化价值，也体现了其 不可替代的经济价值，推动了世界娱乐经济的发展布鲁斯音乐凭借其多特的文化魅 力，不断的发展，进步，演变对整个乐坛的发展起到了至关重要的作用，它的发展 带给我们的多种多样的音乐形式，使我们亨受到了多种音乐风格同吋，在许多美国 黑人作家的作品中，布鲁斯咅乐成为他们创作的源泉和不朽的文化艺术形式。

不得不 提的是，布鲁斯音乐的发展对娱乐经济的发展也起到了很重要的作用布鲁斯音乐是世界的文化束藏，也是整个黑人民族的骄傲在整个人类社会中大 放光彩关键词：布鲁斯音乐美国黑人文学经济On the Culture and Social Significance of Blues in the U.S.AAbstractBlues is a music form, which originated from the south of America in 1860s. Blues as an art is one of the black traditions that have been transmitted to provide a safe location where black people have come to voice. And it was created to express their melancholy, anger and yearnings for love. As a typical feature of black American culture, blues is one of the original basis and cultural sources in studying the text of American black literature and American black culture.In the thesis by introducing the forming and developing of blues, the American blacks life situation, social statue, and their contribution to the art, learn the blues social and culture significance.To the American blacks, blues is not only a healing and therapeutic power, but also an effective survival technique, and brings them highest honor. In the past hundred years, the American black people were suffered not only the physical pain , but also their soul suffered serious wounds. In their most helpless time, blues became a way of solving the psychological pain and continuing to live.To the whole world, blues embodies not only its cultural value, but also its unsubstantiated economic value, urging the development of world recreation economy. Relies on blues cultural charm, it is continual developing, progressing, evoluting. For the development of the music, blues plays a crucial role, its development brings us various music form, make us enjoy the variety of music style. Meanwhile, for many American black writers, blues music become a source of their creation and immortal culture art form. Have to mention is that blues also plays a very important role in entertainment economic development.Blues is the worldfs cultural treasures, and also the pride of American black people. It is gioring in the whole world.musicKey words： blues American blacks literature economyContentsChapter 1 Blues And American Blacks 4LI Blues as an Art 11.2 American blacks, Great Race 3Chapter 2 Literature Review 92.1 The Study at Home 52.2 The Study Abroad 7Chapter 3 The Blues* Social And Coulture Significe 20[1] The Blues as a Bridge from the Real Life to Holy God 10[2] The Blues as a Bridge from the American Blacks to the World 12[3] The Significance of Blues in Economic Development 14[4] The Significance of Blues in World Music 16[5] The Significance of Blues in World Literature 18Chapter4 Conclusion 22Bibliography 23Acknowledgement 24Chapterl Blues and American Blacks[5] Blues as an ArtAfro-American music, ranging from the original ones—field shouting, labor songs and spiritual songs to the contemporary American pop music一blues, jazz, rock and roll, and swing music, is the unique spiritual heritage and historical treasures of the black nation. W. E. S. Du Bois says in his book The Souls of Black Folk: ^fortunately, the black folk music一slaves rhythmic chant一is preserved and being popular even today. As a unique American music, it is an adequate expression of human experience of his land. Once being neglected, despised and misunderstood though, it is so far reserved as an extraordinary legacy and greatest wealth of the black nation?"⑴Music as an art has been enjoyed and will continue to be enjoyed by human beings and its impact on human beings psychologically and even physically is well recognized. Usually we say that food is to the body, while music is to the brain. Religious leader, moral philosophers, ideologues and doctrinaires一including Luther, Kant, Plato, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Descartes, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Cotton Mather, William James and Allan Bloom一are all aware of the power of music over humans. Aristotle is aware of the great power of music in his politics and its education and spiritual values: “music has a power of forming the characters, and should therefore, be introduced to the education of the young： |21Claude Levi一Strauss thinks music influences humans through a common fundamental characteristic like myth: iwblow the level of sounds and rhythms, music acts upon a primitive terrain, which is the physiological time of the listener; this time is irreversible and therefore irredeemably diachronic, yet music transmutes the segment devoted to listening to it into a s。