
Some of the world’s most famous musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day. UNESCO ( United Nations Educational, scientific and Cultural Organization) recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying (联合) voice across cultures.
Despite the celebrations, though, in the U.S. the jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.
It’s Jason Moran’s job to help change that. As the Kennedy Center’s artistic adviser for jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible, and preserve its history and culture.
“Jazz seems like it’s not really a part of the American appetite,” Moran tells National Public Radio’s reporter Neal Conan. “What I’m hoping to accomplish is that my generation and younger start to reconsider and understand that jazz is not black and write anymore. It’s actually color, and it’s actually digital.”
Moran says one of the problems with jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost. “The music can’t be presented today the way it was in 1908 or 1958. It has to continue to move, because the way the world works is not the same,” says Moran.
Last year, Moran worked on a project that arranged Fats Waller’s music for a dance party, “Just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much as it is concert music,” says Moran. “For me, it’s the recontextualization. In music, where does the emotion(情感) lie? Are we, as humans, gaining any insight (感悟) on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context,” says Moran, “So I want to continue those dialogues. Those are the things I want to foster.”
一些世界上最著名的音乐家最近聚集在巴黎和新奥尔良,庆祝第一个一年一度的国际爵士乐日。联合国教科文组织(联合国教育、科学及文化组织)最近将4月30日定为一天,以提高人们对爵士乐及其重要性及其作为一种团结的潜力的认识(联合) 跨文化的声音。
尽管举行了庆祝活动,但在美国,爵士乐观众继续减少,年龄越来越大,音乐也未能与年轻一代建立联系。
Jason Moran的工作就是帮助改变这种状况。作为肯尼迪中心的爵士乐艺术顾问,莫兰希望扩大爵士乐的受众,使音乐更容易获得,并保护其历史和文化。
“爵士乐似乎并不是美国人真正喜欢的东西,”莫兰对国家公共广播电台的记者Neal Conan说。“我希望实现的是,我这一代人和年轻一代人开始重新考虑并理解爵士乐不再是黑人和写作。它实际上是彩色的,实际上是数字的。”
莫兰说,当今爵士乐的一个问题是,音乐的娱乐性已经消失了。“今天的音乐无法像1908年或1958年那样呈现。它必须继续前进,因为世界的运作方式不同,”莫兰说。
去年,莫兰参与了一个项目,为一个舞会安排了Fats Waller的音乐,莫兰说:“我只是想让大家记住,Waller既是舞曲,也是音乐会。”。“对我来说,这是一种重新文本化。在音乐中,情感在哪里(情感) 躺作为人类,我们是否正在获得任何洞察力(感悟) 关于如何谈论我们自己,以及像查理·帕克的记录这样抽象的东西如何让我们进入关于我们的情绪和想法的对话?莫兰说:“有时候我们忽略了音乐有更广泛的背景,所以我想继续这些对话。这些都是我想培养的东西。”
句子成分分析:
Some (of the world's most famous musicians) recently gathered [in Paris and New Orleans] tocelebrate the first
annual International Jazz Day.
句子语法结构详解:
* gathered 为谓语,采用一般过去时。
* to celebrate 为不定式,作状语。
* some 为不定代词。world's 为名词所有格。the 为定冠词。
句子相关词汇解释:
Phrase:
New Orleans | [地名] 新奥尔良 |
Vocabulary:
world [wә:ld] | n. | 1) 世界,人类社会 2) 地球,天下 |
most [mәust] | ad. | 1) 最(与形容词或副词连用构成最高级) 2) (程度上)最大,最多,最高 |
famous ['feimәs] | a. | 著名的,出名的 |
musician [mju:'ziʃәn] | n. | 音乐家, 作曲家,乐师 |
recently ['ri:sntli] | ad. | 不久前;最近 |
gather ['gæðә] | vi. | 1) 聚集,集合,召集 2) 认为,猜想,推断,理解 |
Paris ['pæris] | n. | [地名] 巴黎 |
and [ænd] | conj. | 1) 和, 与, 同, 并 2) 然后,接着 |
celebrate ['selibreit] | vt. | 1) 庆祝,为……庆贺 2) 主持宗教仪式(尤指圣餐) |
first [fә:st] | a. | 1) 第一的 2) 最初的; 最先的 |
annual ['ænjuәl] | a. | 每年的, 一年一次的, 全年的, 一年生的 |
international [,intә'næʃәnәl] | a. | 国际的 |
jazz [dʒæz] | n. | 爵士乐 |
day [dei] | n. | 1) 天, 一日,一天 2) 白天,日间 3) 时代;时期 |
句子成分分析:
Moran says | one (of the problems (with jazz (today))) is | that the entertainment aspect (of the music) has been lost.
句子语法结构详解:
* says 为谓语,采用一般现在时。动词采用第三人称单数形式。
* one 开头为宾语从句,引导词 that 被省略。
* today 为副词作后置定语
* is 为系动词作谓语,采用一般现在时。
* that 为连词,引导表语从句。
* been 为系动词作谓语,采用现在完成时。
* lost 为形容词作表语。
* has 为助动词。the 为定冠词。
句子相关词汇解释:
Vocabulary:
say [sei] | vt. | 1) 说,讲,告诉 2) 比方说,假设 |
one [wʌn] | pron | 1) 一个人(或物) 2) (代表前面提到的,避免重复) |
problem ['prɔblәm] | n. | 1) 棘手的问题,难题,困难 2) 逻辑题,数学题 |
jazz [dʒæz] | n. | 爵士乐 |
today [tә'dei] | ad. | 1) 今天, 当今 2) 现在,当今,当代 |
entertainment [,entә'teinmәnt] | n. | 1) 娱乐,娱乐活动,文娱节目,娱乐片 2) 招待,款待 |
aspect ['æspekt] | n. | 1) 方面,层面 2) 样子,外观,外表 |
music ['mju:zik] | n. | 1) 音乐,乐曲 2) 音乐,乐曲创作(或演奏)艺术 |
lost [lɔst] | a. | 1) 失去的;丢失的;丧失的;无法恢复的 2) 迷路的;迷失的 |
句子成分分析:
Are we, <as humans>, gaining any insight [on {how totalk about ourselves} and {how something (as abstract as
a CharlieParker record) gets us into a dialogue [about our emotions and our thoughts]}]?
句子语法结构详解:
* 助动词 are 引导一般疑问句。
* gaining 为谓语,采用现在进行时。
* 第1个 how 为连接副词,引导宾语从句。
* to talk 为不定式。
* 第2个 how 为连接副词,引导宾语从句。
* as abstract as a Charlie Parker record 为后置定语。
* 第3个 as 为连词,引导比较状语从句。
* record 为谓语,采用一般现在时。
* gets 为谓语,采用一般现在时。动词采用第三人称单数形式。
* we 为人称代词主格。us 为人称代词宾格。our 为形容词型物主代词。ourselves 为自身代词。something 为不定代词。a 为不定冠词。
句子相关词汇解释:
Phrase:
talk about... | 谈论, 谈到 |
1) 使...进入(某空间,如上车等) 2) 使某人能进入大学, 使...能被接纳 |
Vocabulary:
as [æz] | prep. | 1) 作为, 当作 2) 像,如同 |
human ['hju:mәn] | n. | 人,人类 |
gain [gein] | vt. | 1) (从……中)受益,获益,得到(好处) 2) 获得,赢得,博得,取得 |
any ['eni] | a. | 任何的, 任一的 |
insight ['insait] | n. | 1) 洞察力,领悟 2) 洞悉,了解 |
ourselves [,auә'selvz] | n. | 我们自己 |
and [ænd] | conj. | 1) 和, 与, 同, 并 2) 然后,接着 |
something ['sʌmθiŋ] | pron | 1) 某事, 某物 2) 被视为重要或有意义的事物 |
abstract ['æbstrækt] | a. | 1) 抽象的(与个别情况相对),纯理论的 2) 抽象的(与具体经验相对) |
record [ri'kɔ:d] | vt. | 1) 记录,记载 2) 录制,录(音),录(像) |
dialogue ['daiәlɔg] | n. | 1) (书、戏剧或电影中的)对话,对白 2) (组织或国家间为解决问题、结束争端等进行的)对话,讨论,交换意见 |
about [ә'baut] | prep. | 1) 关于, 有关(...的) 2) 在...附近 3) 在...各处 |
emotion [i'mәuʃәn] | n. | 情感,情绪 |
thought [θɔ:t] | n. | 1) (thoughts)心思,思想 2) 想法,看法,主意,记 |
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