Jazz Music In The 1920s
The 1920s. Filled with illegal drinks, fancy new music, dancing, and cars. But the music was a very important influence on people because people would create new dances and the new jazz music got people excited and since women were given more rights they felt free which helped the arts grow. New dances moves followed this new genre and people went wild. Jazz music originated in New Orleans in the early 1900s. This genre spread throughout the country, filling streets, coffee shops, and even speakeasies. Some people say the jazz actually started in the late 1800s but wasn’t recorded until the 1920s. Jazz music is created by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, its roots can be found in the musical traditions
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At this time both jazz music and dance emerged. This movement coincided with both the equally phenomenal introduction of mainstream radio and the conclusion of World War …show more content…
These great performers improvised much of their music and even some of the lyrics. Louis Armstrong was also the first to use "scat" singing, a mix of non-sense sounds in place of lyrics. Jazz was loud, syncopated and emotional. King Oliver and his Creole Band were also an early influence to the style. He played for gangsters like Al Capone and "Lucky" Luciano on the south side of Chicago and blended many styles like "ragtime" marches and even some pop songs of the time. Ba-dum-tsssss. Jazz has been called America's classical music, and for good reason. Along with the blues, its forefather, it is one of the first truly indigenous musics to develop in America, yet its unpredictable, risky ventures into improvisation gave it critical cache with scholars that the blues lacked. Skiddly-doop-dee-dee At the outset, jazz was dance music, performed by swinging big bands. Soon, the dance elements faded into the background and improvisation became the key element of the music. As the genre evolved, the music split into a number of different styles, from the speedy, hard-hitting rhythms of be-bop and the laid-back, mellow harmonies of cool jazz to the jittery, atonal forays of free jazz and the earthy grooves of soul jazz. Jazzy Changes! Jazz music had a profound effect on fashion in the 1920s with many people changing their way of dress to look like jazz artists of the day. The
At this time both jazz music and dance emerged. This movement coincided with both the equally phenomenal introduction of mainstream radio and the conclusion of World War …show more content…
These great performers improvised much of their music and even some of the lyrics. Louis Armstrong was also the first to use "scat" singing, a mix of non-sense sounds in place of lyrics. Jazz was loud, syncopated and emotional. King Oliver and his Creole Band were also an early influence to the style. He played for gangsters like Al Capone and "Lucky" Luciano on the south side of Chicago and blended many styles like "ragtime" marches and even some pop songs of the time. Ba-dum-tsssss. Jazz has been called America's classical music, and for good reason. Along with the blues, its forefather, it is one of the first truly indigenous musics to develop in America, yet its unpredictable, risky ventures into improvisation gave it critical cache with scholars that the blues lacked. Skiddly-doop-dee-dee At the outset, jazz was dance music, performed by swinging big bands. Soon, the dance elements faded into the background and improvisation became the key element of the music. As the genre evolved, the music split into a number of different styles, from the speedy, hard-hitting rhythms of be-bop and the laid-back, mellow harmonies of cool jazz to the jittery, atonal forays of free jazz and the earthy grooves of soul jazz. Jazzy Changes! Jazz music had a profound effect on fashion in the 1920s with many people changing their way of dress to look like jazz artists of the day. The