What about the nineteen twenties‚ the jazz age? This new sound called jazz is music became recently discovered that’s how it begun. To anyone that lived in this era had a blast en-joying new sound of music. The 1920S were known as the “Jazz Age or era”‚ this dec-ade started when the our American soldiers were coming back home and had won the greatest international conflict in our history and had to be dealt with nervous energy stored up and even in the unexpended into the war. Anew president had
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Jazz is one of the more wide known forms of music around the world -- it is all around us whether we realize it or not. Jazz styles are in songs throughout many time periods ranging from around 1895 to present day. When we break down a song into its simplest forms‚ there are certain common jazz styles that are present. Most listeners do not realize that what they are hearing is some form of jazz in one way or another. There have been many influential artists who played an influential role in jazz’s
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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 introduced to American
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THE JAZZ AGE DEFINITION The period that in the U.S. extended roughly from the Armistice of 1918 to the stock-market crash of 1929 and was notable for increased prosperity‚ liberated or hedonistic social behavior‚ Prohibition and the concomitant rise in production and consumption of bootleg liquor‚ and the development and dissemination of jazz and ragtime and associated ballroom dances JAZZ DEFINITION Jazz is a musical tradition and style of music that originated at the beginning
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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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Name: Tutor: Course: Date: Comparing and contrasting Jazz choreographers There are a variety of dancing styles in the world today. Some jazz dances originated from the African American vernacular dances in the 1950s. Some jazz dances can be traced back to the Caribbean communities. Over time‚ jazz dance has evolved and become a sophisticated type of dance that requires intensive training to attain perfection. Today‚ modern jazz choreographers‚ define the art and the genre as it exists‚ however
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Bebop: A Controversial Transition to Modern Jazz Nathan Marketich Music 0711 Professor Leon Dorsey Recitation TA: Alton Merrell 1:00 December 10‚ 2010 The decade of the 1940’s was an important era in the history of jazz. The 1940’s was a transition from traditional jazz into modern jazz. Leading this transition was the introduction of the Bebop period in Jazz. Bebop created controversy in the jazz world for being a contradiction to traditional jazz and was widely disliked by many audiences
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The History and Characteristics of the origins of JAZZ! The American/Africans are a major part of the history of jazz. Jazz originated from the African American slave trade. In Africa‚ natives danced to celebrate cycles of life; birth‚ puberty‚ marriage and death. Children‚ adults and the elderly all depended on dance to express to express their cultural beliefs. Drums‚ string instruments‚ chimes‚ reedpipes and other percussion instruments set the beat for the dancers. Slaves continued to interpret
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The Jazz Age was the period during the 1920’s ( ending with the great depression) when jazz music and dance became popular. The birth of jazz music is often credited to the African americans but expanded and over time was modified to become socially acceptale to middle-class white americans. Jazz music really came into its own and became the definition of music to most people. This music played an important role in peoples lives . The great gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald has many themes‚ which
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October 2010 Jazz in Terms of a Beatnik’s Words Jazz poetry can be defined as poetry that "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation”. As members of the Beat generation began to embrace aspects of African-American culture‚ the art of jazz poetry shifted its focus from racial pride and individuality to impulsiveness‚ spontaneity‚ and freedom‚ which are all themes in The Subterraneans written by Jack Kerouac. In this case‚ both jazz poetry and jazz music were seen as
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