Jazz Music In The 1920s

The 1920s. Filled with illegal drinks, fancy new music, dancing, and cars. But the music was a very important influence on people because people would create new dances and the new jazz music got people excited and since women were given more rights they felt free which helped the arts grow. New dances moves followed this new genre and people went wild. Jazz music originated in New Orleans in the early 1900s. This genre spread throughout the country, filling streets, coffee shops, and even speakeasies. Some people say the jazz actually started in the late 1800s but wasn’t recorded until the 1920s. Jazz music is created by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, its roots can be found in the musical traditions
of both Africa and Europe. The 1920s was thought of as the jazz age or even the dance age. Dances like the Charleston, ETC were created in this time to this music.

Jazz of the 1920s (also known as "The Roaring Twenties" and "The Jazz Age") was a cultural movement that originated in New Orleans, USA.
At this time both jazz music and dance emerged. This movement coincided with both the equally phenomenal introduction of mainstream radio and the conclusion of World War
I.
Jazz in the early 1920s exploded with musicians like pianist Duke Ellington and brass player Louis Armstrong.
These great performers improvised much of their music and even some of the lyrics. Louis Armstrong was also the first to use "scat" singing, a mix of non-sense sounds in place of lyrics. Jazz was loud, syncopated and emotional. King Oliver and his Creole Band were also an early influence to the style. He played for gangsters like Al Capone and "Lucky" Luciano on the south side of Chicago and blended many styles like "ragtime" marches and even some pop songs of the time. Ba-dum-tsssss. Jazz has been called America's classical music, and for good reason. Along with the blues, its forefather, it is one of the first truly indigenous musics to develop in America, yet its unpredictable, risky ventures into improvisation gave it critical cache with scholars that the blues lacked. Skiddly-doop-dee-dee At the outset, jazz was dance music, performed by swinging big bands. Soon, the dance elements faded into the background and improvisation became the key element of the music. As the genre evolved, the music split into a number of different styles, from the speedy, hard-hitting rhythms of be-bop and the laid-back, mellow harmonies of cool jazz to the jittery, atonal forays of free jazz and the earthy grooves of soul jazz. Jazzy Changes! Jazz music had a profound effect on fashion in the 1920s with many people changing their way of dress to look like jazz artists of the day. The
Women's Liberation Movement was furthered by jazz music, as the music provided means of rebellion against set standards of society. The status of African Americans was elevated, largely due to the popularity of this distinctly African American music. Jazz and it's everlasting effect on society Jazz will never die. It's more likely to see jazz played in larger cities or at a larger college campus because the audience is more defined as opposed to massive audiences for pop and rap groups. But jazz is played by many truly talented musicians and is not an easy form of music to play. You got to be good and know what you are doing.
Jazz is alive and well and loved by many. All of these artists played a huge part in the becoming of Jazz music in the 20's.
They started out young and worked their way to the top to bring the genre jazz to an outstanding and otherworldly popularity.