"Tin Pan Alley" was the nickname given to the street where many music publishers worked during the period of 1880 to 1953. In the late 19th century‚ New York had become the epicenter of songwriting and music publishing‚ and publishers converged on the block of West 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. There are several stories about how the block got its name. One that is often repeated tells of a reporter for the New York Herald who was hired to write about the new business
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and the music created during that time period has left a lasting impression on American pop culture. The music still has a large fan base‚ and can be found in numerous books and movies. Biographies and movies have been made about people like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington‚ who made huge contributions to jazz. However‚ many of jazz artists from that time period died without much money or fame. Jazz originated in New Orleans‚ and traveled on to Chicago and New York‚ changing and growing along the
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Jazz flourished widely in the 1920’s‚ which was considered the Jazz age. In the 1920’s Jazz was a lifestyle to most people. Some fell in love with Jazz‚ while others hated it. People who liked Jazz were the passionate and urban people. Many white young boys and girls fell in love with jazz. Jazz was a way for them to be freed from the rural America. Jazz had originally come from New Orleans but job opportunities had opened up elsewhere causing many musicians to move out of New Orleans. This is what
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success of Blues singer Mamie Smith (no relation). Throughout the 1920s Smith recorded with many of the great Jazz musicians of that era‚ including Fletcher Henderson‚ James P. Johnson‚ Coleman Hawkins‚ Don Redman and Louis Armstrong. Her rendition of "St. Louis Blues" with Armstrong is considered by most critics to be one of finest recordings of the 1920s. Bessie Smith was one of the biggest African-American stars of the 1920s and was popular with both Whites and African-Americans‚ but by 1931 the Classic
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The Harlem Renaissance‚ originally known as the New Negro Movement‚ was a literally and intellectually upbringing that fostered a new identity for black culture. It was a movement through which African American sought to embrace their culture and heritage through music‚ art‚ writing‚ and thinking in American Life. The Renaissance Movement was significant due to African American influential writers‚ introduction to Jazz music‚ and the recognition of the intellectual contributions among black Americans
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Elizabeth Smith (Bessie Smith) Elizabeth Smith was born on April 15‚ 1894 in Chattanooga‚ Tennessee. Her parents were Laura and William Smith. She was one of the second children. She was born into a poverty stricken black family in the segregated south. Her father was a Baptist minister he died soon after her birth leaving her mother to raise her and her siblings. She was about nine when she lost her mother and two brothers. Bessie and the remaining siblings were raised by their
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believe to be the singer bared a very heavy resemblance to jazz singers from the days of Duke Ellington‚ she was very good. She did many jazz standards and a couple of Billie Holiday songs‚ and even did one of my favorite songs‚ ‘At Last’ by Etta James. The band’s name was ‘Coltrane Revisited’‚ the people on instruments were Joe Lavano on saxophone‚ Steve Kuhn on piano‚ Dennis Irwin on bass‚ and Idris Muhammad on the drums. All of the members of the band seemed very into their music‚ they were
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them messed up during any of the dance routines but‚ Michael was mostly used as an example. He was the seventh out of his nine brothers. His brother Randy got hit the most because he had trouble with learning dance steps. Joe denied abusing his children. Michael Jacksons father Joe Jackson wouldn’t even let his sons call him dad‚ He demanded that they call him by his first name. Michael said that he would never hit his children because he wouldn’t want them to feel the way he felt about his father
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The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem renaissance was just the start of a new beginning for the African Americans in North America. Now the U.S. has a black president‚ in the 1800 you be killed for thinking of a black cloud becoming someone. And this all happened because of the Harlem renaissance. The Harlem renaissance was what happened when the Jim Crow laws were put in to movement. The African American population had to move the North because in the south they not find any good paying work but
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Louis Armstrong is recognized for his amazing performance with his raspy scat singing and outstanding showmanship with his trumpet. His journey pays tribute to people and events that have shaped many human lives to make them become who they are today or what they will become in the future. Musical genius‚ Armstrong‚ overcame from hard work and poverty to become Jazz’s greatest shining star. Before Louis Armstrong can become a star he had to go through some hardships. Armstrong was born
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