Black Music and CultureI believe that music makes history and culture, because it develops social and cultural world, like Civil Rights movement, social protest movements, Bebop movement, hip-hop and so on. Artists develop these cultural and social worlds with artistic expressions, music. There are many artists, who built the social and political human language with their ideas and spirits in their music, and the music was always the representation of humans’ experience and ideas in real living world.Specially, black music was one of the primary and leading artistry with spirituals and expressions of various ideas and meanings. This is because for black people, music was something that they can to put together worlds of significances and meanings, and music had pleased, comforted, confronted, and accompanied them in their social reality. Through music, they illustrated an incredible quest of human characters and spirit. Among many black musicians, I believe that Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin, and Tupac are outstanding artists who are also connected each other in some ways.Louis Armstrong was a ‘griot,’ who had carried great traditions and changed faces of music. He had invented the American sing, created modern culture music, which is jazz. Louis Armstrong himself was an environment of jazz music, who is most widely known star of early jazz and jazz’s first international star. His works and performing had combined into a black popular music arts tradition, blues, ragtime, a spiritual impulse and language and so on. For example, he influenced everybody’s playing and singing styles and the art of jazz solo and posture, and is a first great projected image of American artistry in jazz.Aretha Franklin is a “living encyclopedia of soul music,” and her music has cultural and political empowerment. Through her music, she had awakened and aroused the movement so that people could be socially conscious and alerted. Her music symbolizes and stands for social responsibility, individuality, self-love, spirituality, humanity, and so on. As a woman, she had enlightened and stimulated the women’s right as well, like in her song “Respect”.Tupac was a hip-hop artist, who had expressed and spoke up about the violence and hardship within the community and society, racism, prejudices, and other social conflicts. In his interview, he says “I know you have billions of dollars, you do not need fifty rooms if you only have two kids.” He urges and encourages society to look at what it is really important in this real world we are living in, and what should be really valued in this society and community we are belong to. As a hip-hop artist he tells truth to people by representing reality, sensibility, culture, and way of life with his music and personality.There are also many great artists representing and symbolizing importance and significance in our culture, and these three artists are common in the way that they shaped the society and culture with both their music and their human sides. They strengthened the world to face with the reality by creating the new culture and movements. They were responsible and accountable by taking the role of artists, streaming the ideas, and just being themselves and standing out as themselves with their unique, strong personality and characteristic, and by holding on to their firm ideas and beliefs.