The 1920’s are a time filled with American culture and a mix of everything new technologies‚ different cultural views and newly broken barriers. Jazz music was also brought into the lives of white civilians bringing a whole new culture mix to areas otherwise recognized as segregated. These new styles of life and music brought together two different communities yet also set problems for both. Seen as a time of shine and beauty not all was black and white and with the aid of colored writers and poets
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Ragtime‚ Blues and Jazz Whenever we think of classical music‚ Jazz will always came up to our mind and when we talking about Jazz‚ we somehow always relate it to Blues and Ragtime since they are the ones that gave birth to Jazz. The similarities between Ragtime and Blues are that they both came from African American background‚ but they are not related. They are two different style of music The Blues came before Ragtime‚ it was born during the days of slavery and more likely playing as church
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Dexter Gordon was a Jazz saxophonist. He was born February 27‚ 1923 in Los Angeles California. Many people know Mr. Gordon because of bebop. This style of play is what brought him fame. Gordon played amongst many jazz greats like Charlie Parker‚ Charles Mingus‚ and Buddy Collette to name a few. Gordon started to play at the age of 13. His first instrument was the clarinet but quickly after he decided to take up the tenor saxophone at the age of 17. Music was always popular around the Gordon household
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was one of the most popular Jazz musicians of the 1920’s. He was born Leon Bix Beiderbecke on March 10‚ 1903 in Davenport‚ Iowa. His father was a coal and lumber merchant and his mother a church organist. Although he did take lessons for a short time‚ his teacher grew frustrated with him and his improvisations and refusal to read the music. He learned to play by ear. He was the first great white Jazz cornetist. He was inspired by records of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and by hearing bands
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League was established in 1917. There were only 5 teams‚ two in Montreal‚ one in Toronto‚ one in Ottawa and one in Quebec City. Professional hockey was becoming popular south of the border‚ but most hockey players were still Canadian. Music and Dancing Jazz was the music of the 1920s. Originating with musicians in New Orleans. This style of music spread across the United States and North Canada.
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Berry‚ and James Brown. Not only are these people impacts‚ but is the music genre; such as jazz‚ and blues. These topics had made an impact on American society at the time‚ and in some sense it still does to this day. In the late 1930’s and throughout 1940’s‚ Louis Armstrong was an American Jazz Trumpet player. Or may have been the most legendary‚ inspiring‚ exhilarating‚ Intoxicating‚ and electrifying jazz trumpet player. He was born August 4‚ 1901 - July 6‚ 1941(Louis Armstrong Wikipedia). After
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Duke Ellington Duke Ellington was one of America’s most prolific composers. He led and played piano for one of the century’s most successful jazz orchestra. Although he excelled in big band jazz arrangements‚ He composed in a variety of forms including large scale abstract instrumental works as well as songs‚ night production numbers‚ and dance tunes. Duke Ellington’s music is known for linking images and sound. He often referred to many of his compositions as “portraits or tone parallels”. Duke
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James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues” exemplifies suffering as the major theme depicted through the struggle of two brothers as they try to understand one another. Baldwin’s underlying message deals with the hardships that African-Americans endured through the mid twentieth century‚ a time when race determined your status in society. The brothers appear to be completely different people throughout the story but nearing its end‚ Sonny’s brother finally begins to understand Sonny’s bizarre
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rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form‚ ubiquitous in jazz‚ rhythm and blues‚ and rock and roll is characterized by specific chord progressions‚ of which the twelve-bar blues chord progression is the most common. The blue notes that‚ for expressive purposes are sung or played flattened or gradually bent (minor 3rd to major 3rd) in relation to the pitch of the major scale‚ are also an important part of the sound. Jazz Jazz is a music that originated at the beginning of the 20th century
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Ana Peralta‚ Joel Peralta‚ & Christina Aispuro November 19‚ 2012 Professor Jenkins Aaron Copland Music has shaped the world since it originated and it keeps developing to inspire people. The Twentieth Century music was in the time frame of 1900 through 2009. Every musical period in time has some influences that help develop the unique styles of this era. Aaron Copland was an intelligent individual of this time. He participated in musical works from 1900 to 1990. Aaron Copland was known
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