After the United States experienced a couple of years of the Roaring Twenties‚ the American economy plummeted causing a Great Depression. This Great Depression increased the unemployment rate from 3% to 25% drastically changing the lives of millions of Americans. Entertainment during this time period played a big factor‚ where music particularly played a genuine role in helping Americans forget about their daily hardships caused by the economic decline. People enjoyed listening and dancing to Jazz
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the hands of jazz musicians in New Orleans. There were multiple types of jazz such as New Orleans jazz which was popular during the 1870’s until the 1920’s‚ Ragtime (1890-1930)‚ The Jazz Era (1920-1930)‚ the Big Band/Swing Era (1930’s-1940’s)‚ the Bebop Era (1940’s- 1950’s)‚ The Avant Guard Era (late 1950’s)‚ Free Jazz (late 1950’s)‚ and Fusion (1960’s-1970’s). However‚ when jazz was in the beginning stages the trombone was more often used as a single instrument. Early jazz bands consisted of a many
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Jazz Timeline (1900-1955) Roots of Jazz: It had blend elements of several cultures. First‚ West African emphasis on improvisation‚ percussion and call-and –response techniques. Second‚ American brass band influence on instrumentation. Third‚ European harmonic and structural practice. Blues and Ragtime were immediate source. Ragtime: Ragtime piano music is generally in duple meter and is performed at a moderate march tempo. The pianist’s right hand plays a highly syncopated
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The music of the early 20th century was heavily jazz and blues. The bases of jazz music were influenced by the field hollers‚ hymns‚ and work songs from African Americans in the 1800s. Until 1901‚ improvisation‚ the style of Dixieland‚ created the genre of jazz‚ where every performer is playing different rhythms and tunes at the same time. Cornet player‚ Louis Armstrong‚ changed the Dixieland style and gave the idea for players to perform separate solos at different times. In the 1930s‚ Swing was
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History of American Jazz Appendix A: Understanding Jazz -Americas art form -European- African musical traditions -Hard to define Defining Jazz Improvisation- spontaneous and simultaneous composing and performing Rhythm- a unique interaction with time involving: -syncopation‚ -jazz swing rhythm Dissonance- extending common rules of music; “pushing the envelope” Jazz interpretation- a unique way of producing sound and phrasing melodies Interaction- listening to and reacting to musical
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in Jazz Historical Discourse. The idea of African American music and hipness as cultural critique has detached itself over the past from the circulated internationally‚ particular historical context of bebop; it has inspired many young generations of white people to adopt both the style of hipness‚ which have shifted to changes in sartorial style‚ and African American musical‚ and the social attitude that hipness has been trying to signify (Lott 216).
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have shown the ability to fuse hip-hop essence with jazz through sampling and live recording. Often times hip hop musicians have given As RZA With the similarities through development and growth hip hop has become a new and popular form of jazz as bebop developed in the mid-1940s and ragtime in the early 20th
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Reflection Activity: Expressionist Music and Jazz Expressionism is an artistic movement that stresses intense and subjective emotion. Artists that use expressionism usually focus on their inner feelings instead of depicting outward appearances. Expressionism is an art concerned with social protest. Some characteristics of expressionist music are that it is episodic with a fragmentary form. It involves a great emotional magnitude. Also‚ it is discontinuous. Most expressionist works stress harsh dissonance
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Firstly‚ one interesting fact I found was that his birth name was actually James Louis Johnson‚ but that he was often referred to as Jay Jay Johnson. Secondly‚ I learned that Jay Jay is considered one of the first trombone players to embrace bebop music and one of the leading trombonists of the post-swing era‚ thus having a great influence on other jazz musicians. Thirdly‚ I also found it interesting how trombone was not the first instrument that he played‚ and that he began with piano lessons
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by a regular or forceful rhythm‚ improvisation‚ and syncopation. Jazz’s most common instruments are brass and woodwind instruments and piano although the guitar and violin are occasionally used. Some different styles of Jazz are Dixieland‚ swing‚ bebop‚ and free jazz. The history of Jazz started in the South in the United States. The foundation of Jazz is the blues which is an African American-derived music form. In 1809‚ North American’s African Americans began to reinvent music to fit a different
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