Just as (1)________is famous for the tango, so American is well-known for jazz, a typical American invention. Unlike traditional music, which is restricted to European traditions, jazz music is (2)________and free-formed. Jazz is interesting, so is its (3)________. The music was invented by Negroes, who were taken away from West Africa and sold as slaves to the plantation owners in the South of the country. Their work was hard and their life was short. When one died, the friends and relatives would attend the (4)________. On the occasion, a music band often accompanied a march to the cemetery. On the way to the cemetery, slow, solemn music was played, but on the way back home (5)________music was preferred. The music made everyone want to dance. This was the early form of jazz.
There were also other musical (6)________that influenced the formation of jazz. One was the musical (7)________in West Africa, from where these Negroes were taken away to America. The other was the (8)________music, which always describes something sad—an unhappy love affair, a money problem, bad luck. Still the third was the liberated blacks’’ (9)________to create a new music form that was fast, happy and set a (10)________rhythm to express their new-found freedom after the American Civil War.