Chapter 1 Extra Credit Questions 1. Why is jazz hard to define? Describe some of the reasons why it is sometimes difficult to determine if a musical recording or a performance qualifies as jazz. Jazz does not have one set style‚ but rather many styles which leaves the definition of jazz hard to define. A jazz player can play any style they want and there aren’t really set rules they have to follow to be considered jazz‚ just a few guidelines that are taken into consideration. It can sometimes
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October 14‚ 2011 Seeing Ragtime and Blues as Parents of Jazz Jazz is a music genre that has complex characteristics and history of development and thus many musicians and scholars face troubles in defining what jazz is. In general‚ jazz is believed to have born in New Orleans. Jazz developed for the pleasure of the social dancers. According to the “Understanding Jazz: What Is Jazz?” of John F. Kennedy center for the Performing Arts‚ Jazz was created mainly by Afro-Americans‚ and had elements of
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Chapter 1 Listening to Jazz McGraw-Hill/Irwin © 2013 McGraw-Hill Companies. All Rights Reserved. Overview Jazz has been described as “America’s Classical Music” - the first musical style to have a specific American Identity. 1-2 Jazz developed out of many diverse musical and cultural influences at the beginning of the 20th century. 19th century photo of a group of African American Minstrels 1-3 The absence of recordings or written examples of the earliest jazz results in subjective historical
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In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man Ellison makes strong connections between the musical jazz elements and the Battle Royal excerpt of the novel. The jazz element of improvisation is described to be spontaneous‚ on the spot‚ composing to come up with different melodies and is the prominent element used by Ellison in the Battle Royal excerpt of the novel. Ellison uses these spontaneous moments like that of the jazz element of improvisation to allow our narrator‚ the invisible man to take control‚ while
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overt racism dominated the minstrel show even as it provided employment opportunities for black performers; revisionist histories abound‚ especially in the development of jazz music‚ as the invaluable contributions of the black artists preceding the jazz movement often had their story rewritten to assert the development of jazz music by white artists instead. Despite these challenges‚ the growth and spread of music in this era was ultimately a positive influence on black culture. In addition to
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Jazz Music in The Great Gatsby In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby‚ the reader sees a common theme of corruption of the American Dream. In the 1920’s‚ the times are changing in America and morals are becoming looser and the lifestyle of the wealthy is more careless. New fashion‚ attitude‚ and music is what nicknamed this era the “Jazz Age‚” greatly influencing Fitzgerald’s writing. He created similarities between many things in pop culture and the journey his characters Gatsby‚ Daisy‚ Tom
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5/4/17 English The Jazz Age: What is the Jazz Age ?The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s ‚ ending with the Great Depression in which jazz music and dance styles became popular in the United States. Despite of social and economic upheaval ‚ the 1900s prospered as a whole. Society was experiencing a total new way of life
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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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MUS 110 Short Answer Questions over Jazz Fall 2010 Mai Nguyen 2. Explain why jazz would be considered the first truly American art form. Present two music compositions and discuss geographic location‚ famous proponent of the style and give at least two musical characteristics that define the style. Select from the following compositions: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Armstrong) In the Mood (Miller) Ko-Ko (Ellington) Koko (Parker) So What (Davis) Take Five (Brubeck) Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin)
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Jazz: The History The music called Jazz was born sometime around 1895 in New Orleans. It combined elements of Ragtime‚ marching band music and Blues. What made Jazz such a different perspective of traditional music was its act of improvising. There was a widespread use of improvisation often by more than one player at a time. Songwriters would write the music down on a piece of paper‚ and then the Jazz musicians would try their best to play the music. Usually in a Jazz piece‚ musicians would
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