Video Lecture Reflection

Video Lecture ReflectionAuthorDepartment, University Course code: Course title Instructor Due DateVideo Lecture ReflectionIn the video Wynton Marsalis gives an enlightening lecture on why the blues is the melting pot of America. At the start of the genre, America was deeply segregated in all aspects including religion. Nevertheless, the country had always had ways of converging, then diverging once more. For instance, when Martin Luther King, Jr.was in prison, he received letters from ministers including White ministers who sought his counsel. As such, Wynton notes that “we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”For music, blues was the melting pot of all the traditional American sounds. When RNB was labelled African-American and rock n’ rolls were White, Blues brought together the African and European native traditions formed a hybrid of Americana in the United States.When Marsalis and violinist Mark O'Connor play their instruments at the end of the lecture, this hybrid is brought into life. The fiddle was traditionally a European instrument. It played a major role in the classical