An analysis of African American Vernacular English in Music

AAVE is a form of American English spoken primarily by African Americans. Although an AAVE speaker's dialect may exhibit regional variation,there are still many salient features. The relationship between Black Music and Standard American English is a reflection of the special situation of the mutual influence and infiltration of the African-American sub-culture and the main-stream American culture. African-American sub-culture is shaped under pressure from the main-stream culture,and affected the latter to so great an extent that African-American sub-culture has been identified as one of the most important feature of American culture. The origin and development of Black Music are closely related to the cultural life of the Blacks. Because of its innate cultural connotation and the musical feature such as lively rhythm,fast talking,omission of pronunciation,full of obscene language and rhyme,all the features mentioned above help to have a great effect on the development of the AAVE.