Castellon‚ Karen Period 5 Mrs. Wehunt March 30‚2012 The Jazz Age 1920`s Like all the changes during the course of history that the United States has experienced The Jazz age can be explained as a time to experiment and try different styles. This period was taken place during a time when big businesses started to grow even bigger and the United states became even more industrialized. The Jazz Age happened after WW1. During WW1 everyone was focused on the war. Everything the people would do
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new times came new influences and much change to the musical industry of jazz. This investigation will study the evolution of jazz music in the rapidly changing times of America in the 1920s and how the new American lifestyle and optimistic times influenced the music. Two sources that are used in this investigation are Jazz from its Origins to the Present by Lewis Porter‚ Michael Ullman‚ and Edward Hazell‚ and Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History by William Howland Kenney and published in 1993‚ which
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Performing at the Laidlaw Performing Arts Center was pianist and faculty member Robert Holm. The concert was held on February 27th‚ 2018 at 7:30pm. This was Robert Holm’s 50th performance and as a tribute he did “The 4 B’s” theme. The 4 B’s represent the composers Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)‚ Béla Bartók (1881-1945)‚ Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)‚ and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). The first piece was Prelude and Fugue in A-flat major‚ WTC Book II by Johann Sebastian Bach. Prelude and Fugue
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CultureTopic: Jazz: Urban and Rural Reactions in the 1920sIn parallel with the uproar of jazz during the 1920s came the commotion of different critics from various geographical settings. Many of the white people living in rural areas disliked and rejected jazz as a musical genre. However‚ the urban city-dwellers were more fond of it; therefore‚ it was more generally accepted and frequently found in city nightclubs and radio stations. Several characteristics of cities also allowed jazz to survive in
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Jazz Music during the Industrial Revolution The American Industrial Revolution included major changes in technology‚ manufacturing‚ agriculture‚ transport and music. The arts were maintained and enhanced as the economy was improving. Significantly‚ the history of jazz began in the late 1800s along with the Industrial revolution. Jazz was a type of music that has originated in the United States. Also‚ jazz music greatly impacted the Industrial Revolution era. Initially‚ jazz originated
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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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Four Seasons It is difficult to define Jazz music‚ as there are many different styles and movements. A brief definition of Jazz would be: American music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms‚ polyphonic ensemble playing‚ improvisatory‚ virtuosic solos‚ melodic freedom‚ and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality. 1 But this does not tell everything about Jazz. Jazz developed from Ragtime around 1900 and
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April 21‚ 2011 Kenny G In the history of Jazz‚ musicians have always found ways to come up with new groundbreaking ideas that cause Jazz to evolve and ultimately increase in complexity. However‚ not many musicians took the simple‚ listener friendly approach. Kenny G was one of the few musicians who took this approach. His style has caused for much controversy between other Jazz artists‚ but in the end‚ he is still looked upon as one of the most successful Jazz musicians in the world. Kenny G‚ (Kenneth
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music world. The twenties‚ which have now been termed "the jazz age"‚ laid the foundation for jazz as a marketable mainstream fascination. Throughout the twenties and thirties‚ dances such as the Charleston‚ Lindy Hop‚ and Jitterbug helped to secure the big band profession in entertainment. Swing emerged as a genre formulated on a swinging 4/4 beat with live performances completely written-out and arranged. During the 1940’s a new form of jazz emerged known as bebop. Bebop is largely attributed to the
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Bud Powell falls into the category of the jazz style of bebop. This style began in the 1940s and was something totally unexpected. It had really fast tempos‚ which were unusual for jazz at the time.”This was not dance music‚ and it was never really intended to be popular. It was jazz for the artists themselves and for the true jazz lovers.”(Hopkins Lesson 7). But become popular it did. Not only that but it “established the primacy of virtuosic solo improvisation” (Hopkins Lesson 7). In this sense
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