The Role Of Music In The 1920's
In the 1920’s Chicago, everything was run by the mob, most of the clubs, cabarets, speakeasies. The club scene in Chicago was HUGE, with literally hundreds of clubs in central hubs, such as Clark Street in the north, and also the black belt on the south side of chicago. Many of these clubs were of mixed races, whites and blacks were all together in the same establishments, and were hidden in alleyways. These clubs in chicago were known for the variety in music, illegal use of alcohol and were extremely well known for their crime.
Country Blues singers and Classic blues singers were different by one huge thing. Country singers were mainly men, and Classic Blues artists were mainly women. Country Blues originated from field songs, field hollers …show more content…
Louis Armstrong was an artist that played the trumpet, cornet and sang with his voice to share his music with everyone who wanted to hear. Meanwhile, Bix Beiderbecke, was a composer and also an artist who was much more familiar with the piano and the cornet. Louis Armstrong was more focused on the solos in jazz rather than as a simultaneous improvisational group.
Organized crime played a big role in the jazz world because it gave jazz artists a place to play and perform their music. During the prohibition era hundreds of these clubs/speakeasies popped up because of the mob. So, in a way the mob gave jazz a place to be heard.
C. W. Handy was well known around the world as “The Father of Blues”. He was naturally born with a gifted ear, and was able to notate anything that he was able to hear. When he was younger, he was told that he would never make it in music, and he was still able to learn how to notate music. He was able to take the traditional black music that he heard on the road as a traveling musician, and was able to capture it correctly as sheet musicing music, and that was really his big contribution to jazz music.It not only was able to make the “Blues” music more playable to other musicians, but It not only made the music that came to be called “the Blues” playable by other it was also able to add a fundamental element of the blues into the vocabulary professional musicians, but it also added the fundamental musical elements of the Blues into the vocabulary of professional
Country Blues singers and Classic blues singers were different by one huge thing. Country singers were mainly men, and Classic Blues artists were mainly women. Country Blues originated from field songs, field hollers …show more content…
Louis Armstrong was an artist that played the trumpet, cornet and sang with his voice to share his music with everyone who wanted to hear. Meanwhile, Bix Beiderbecke, was a composer and also an artist who was much more familiar with the piano and the cornet. Louis Armstrong was more focused on the solos in jazz rather than as a simultaneous improvisational group.
Organized crime played a big role in the jazz world because it gave jazz artists a place to play and perform their music. During the prohibition era hundreds of these clubs/speakeasies popped up because of the mob. So, in a way the mob gave jazz a place to be heard.
C. W. Handy was well known around the world as “The Father of Blues”. He was naturally born with a gifted ear, and was able to notate anything that he was able to hear. When he was younger, he was told that he would never make it in music, and he was still able to learn how to notate music. He was able to take the traditional black music that he heard on the road as a traveling musician, and was able to capture it correctly as sheet musicing music, and that was really his big contribution to jazz music.It not only was able to make the “Blues” music more playable to other musicians, but It not only made the music that came to be called “the Blues” playable by other it was also able to add a fundamental element of the blues into the vocabulary professional musicians, but it also added the fundamental musical elements of the Blues into the vocabulary of professional