The Decline Of Jazz In The 21st Century
The end of jazz? How and why has jazz declined in popularity in the 21st century?
Introduction
Jazz is a genre that was born in America during around the early 20th century. It is a combination of music of white European settlers and African music. My project will be based on whether the musical genre, jazz, is losing popularity and if so, exploring the reasons for why this is happening. Referring to my question some people say jazz is “dying”, the most common use of the word ‘death’ is the state of or the act of dying which is (of a person, plant or animal) to stop living, however, in this case it is used to mean the termination or extinction of something.
The reason I chose to study this, is because when I was looking at the genre of jazz for another subject for another subject, there was a mention of it apparently “dying” and I have never thought about a whole genre, made up of so …show more content…
music consumption a piece. However, classical album sales were higher for 2014 which puts jazz at the bottom of the barrel”. Comparing to the recorded figures for 2004 in the UK the percentage for jazz album sales is even lower! Adding on to that, David mentions that it carries on a trend of seeing more listeners “move away from jazz every year”. He wrote that in 2011 according, according to BusinessWeek the sum of 11 million jazz albums (i.e. CDs, cassettes, Vinyls and digitals) were sold which makes up 2.8% of all music sold in that year and a year later it fell even, further to 2.2%. Although it increased slightly to 2.3% in 2013, it again fell to only 2% in 2014. When you compare the 2%, representing 5.2 million albums, sold by all jazz artists in 2014 to the best-selling artist of 2014, just one person – Taylor Swift who sold 3.7 million copies of her album ‘1989’ within the last two months of 2014 there isn’t too much of a difference, relative to each
Introduction
Jazz is a genre that was born in America during around the early 20th century. It is a combination of music of white European settlers and African music. My project will be based on whether the musical genre, jazz, is losing popularity and if so, exploring the reasons for why this is happening. Referring to my question some people say jazz is “dying”, the most common use of the word ‘death’ is the state of or the act of dying which is (of a person, plant or animal) to stop living, however, in this case it is used to mean the termination or extinction of something.
The reason I chose to study this, is because when I was looking at the genre of jazz for another subject for another subject, there was a mention of it apparently “dying” and I have never thought about a whole genre, made up of so …show more content…
music consumption a piece. However, classical album sales were higher for 2014 which puts jazz at the bottom of the barrel”. Comparing to the recorded figures for 2004 in the UK the percentage for jazz album sales is even lower! Adding on to that, David mentions that it carries on a trend of seeing more listeners “move away from jazz every year”. He wrote that in 2011 according, according to BusinessWeek the sum of 11 million jazz albums (i.e. CDs, cassettes, Vinyls and digitals) were sold which makes up 2.8% of all music sold in that year and a year later it fell even, further to 2.2%. Although it increased slightly to 2.3% in 2013, it again fell to only 2% in 2014. When you compare the 2%, representing 5.2 million albums, sold by all jazz artists in 2014 to the best-selling artist of 2014, just one person – Taylor Swift who sold 3.7 million copies of her album ‘1989’ within the last two months of 2014 there isn’t too much of a difference, relative to each