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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in Jazz Historical Discourse. The idea of African American music and hipness as cultural critique has detached itself over the past from the circulated internationally‚ particular historical context of bebop; it has inspired many young generations of white people to adopt both the style of hipness‚ which have shifted to changes in sartorial style‚ and African American musical‚ and the social attitude that hipness has been trying to signify (Lott 216).
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have shown the ability to fuse hip-hop essence with jazz through sampling and live recording. Often times hip hop musicians have given As RZA With the similarities through development and growth hip hop has become a new and popular form of jazz as bebop developed in the mid-1940s and ragtime in the early 20th
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Reflection Activity: Expressionist Music and Jazz Expressionism is an artistic movement that stresses intense and subjective emotion. Artists that use expressionism usually focus on their inner feelings instead of depicting outward appearances. Expressionism is an art concerned with social protest. Some characteristics of expressionist music are that it is episodic with a fragmentary form. It involves a great emotional magnitude. Also‚ it is discontinuous. Most expressionist works stress harsh dissonance
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by a regular or forceful rhythm‚ improvisation‚ and syncopation. Jazz’s most common instruments are brass and woodwind instruments and piano although the guitar and violin are occasionally used. Some different styles of Jazz are Dixieland‚ swing‚ bebop‚ and free jazz. The history of Jazz started in the South in the United States. The foundation of Jazz is the blues which is an African American-derived music form. In 1809‚ North American’s African Americans began to reinvent music to fit a different
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Firstly‚ one interesting fact I found was that his birth name was actually James Louis Johnson‚ but that he was often referred to as Jay Jay Johnson. Secondly‚ I learned that Jay Jay is considered one of the first trombone players to embrace bebop music and one of the leading trombonists of the post-swing era‚ thus having a great influence on other jazz musicians. Thirdly‚ I also found it interesting how trombone was not the first instrument that he played‚ and that he began with piano lessons
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legend‚ jazz was conceived in New Orleans and moved up the Mississippi River to Memphis‚ St. Louis and finally Chicago. Since its beginnings‚ jazz has developed a rich variety of sub styles such as New Orleans style (including Dixieland)‚ swing‚ bebop‚ cool‚ free jazz‚ and jazz rock. It has only been around 100 years but it has shifted numerous time . The jazz in 1900 to 1910 was still in pupal stage in the first decade of the 20th century. Some of the first jazz icons‚ trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Bix
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Jazz is one of the greatest music genres of all time. There are 3 main types of jazz that we have studied this year – bebop‚ swing and cool jazz. While today jazz may not be mainstream music that is heard on the radio‚ there was a time between 1930 and 1955 where it was. In this research project I am going to be comparing the famous jazz compositions‚ “Take Five” by Dave Brubeck and “C-Jam Blues” by Duke Ellington. Both pieces were chart-topping and achieved incredible mainstream success‚ with “Take
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and collective sounds. However‚ through this class‚ I realized that there is more than swing style‚ which are bebop‚ cool‚ hard bop‚ Chicago style and so on. It was interesting to see how different types there are inside one genre called ‘jazz’‚ when I thought jazz was already just one genre itself. Inside the jazz genre‚ there is a style called ‘bop’. Bop jazz was sometimes called as ‘bebop’‚ which is another style of jazz. It
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Faculty ensemble‚ the musicians played songs that were previously written. Their musical styles were mostly bebop and swing with lots of call and respond. Jim Mc falls would play his trombone and all group members would follow after him. The song “Moodly” sounded like bebop‚ because there were a lot of bass drum bombs and tonal clashes. “Marsch der freien Sound Fur Funf Instrumente” was also a bebop song that was played with extended harmonies and tonal
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