... Jazz in this new Jazz Era. Chicago created a good home for these migrating musicians for several reasons. In Chicago, there was a growing African-American population due to good paying stockyard and steel mill jobs. Also, with Prohibition in full swing, Chicago became headquarters for many bootleggers. With ... playing. According to Nathan Davis: The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most fruitful periods in the history of African-American culture. Music, dance, poetry, prose, and art by African-Americans were looked upon with new respect. The country was prosperous and blacks were among ...

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... and enslaved them, their up beat happy beats became slowed and sad. Forced to labor long and hard on the plantations against their will, African slaves would sing and chant in their native tongues as they worked. They would take turns 'calling out' in song, to which the ... great contributions to the world. "It was created in the days of slavery in America, when a black person was still an African in America, not an African-American. It emerged from under the great weight and strain of years of oppression and cruelty as a shining pearl and testament ... them going and "music continues ...

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... on piano or arranged for brass bands. Making use of the brass bands that entertained in city parks, it quickly became a popular dance-based music. Also, the complex syncopation that made the music appealing is its prominently African-influenced trait. The right hand melody accents weak beats or places accents between beats, while the left hand plays a steady rhythm. For ... . Thus, the combination of this complex meter and blues vocal styles became the framework for the genre of jazz music. Yet, jazz also incorporates the other two aspects of the African esthetic. Most importantly, impro...

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The blues is: ...an African-American folk music idiom, a forerunner of jazz and a major influence on 20th century American popular music. ...a song-form with an AAB rhyming scheme ... developed into songs. Anglo-Saxon church music and folk-ballads were also transformed into forerunners of blues and gospel songs, again drastically influenced by the ex-slaves' African musical heritage. Another strain entered the mix with the jumped-up dances and songs popular in medicine shows. Initially, the blues instruments of favor were the harmonica ... --cheap, easily portable, and, in the African manner,...

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... ragtime and the blues in their origins, forms, and desired purposes, these differences were vital in establishing the foundation of jazz. Ragtime and the blues emerged from different spectrums in African American backgrounds. Each genre has individual experiences that contribute to the defining characteristics of each. Scott Joplin, a ragtime pianist, was convinced that ragtime was "the kind of music that ... made each unique. Despite the differences in form, the two genres, ragtime and blues, were both forms of entertainment. Whether it was to forget about the current situation or to d...

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... 1950's when rhythm and blues was combined with country music and some elements of jazz. The lyrics were simple and catchy, themed around love, loss of love and teenage rebellion. African-American singers were the first ones to play Rock and Roll. Soon, production studios became interested in the style of music and introduced it to America. At first teenagers were ... decade's music was intended to be listened to, but not to be danced to traditionally. It became very energetic and loud; it lost the beat that tempted the listeners to dance. Instead of dancing, the musicians and the audien...

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... and war. Another musical genre that had a trend going on for a long time is rock. Rock and Roll covered from 1954 to about 1964. Rock and Roll is a type of dance music that blends rhythms of blues, folk and country. The only reason why Rock and Roll only lasted about a decade is because it never changed, nothing was ever really add ... and Roll is its racial controversy. When Rock and Roll was the biggest trend not everyone could enjoy it due to the racial problems. Since rock was invented by an African American named Chuck Berry, white people at that time disheartened the music and it ...

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