JAZZ MUSIC OF THE 1920'S

JAZZ MOVING UP RIVER

• Birthplace- New Orleans
• Movement during 1920's to Chicago, New York, Kansas City
• Took the United States by storm
• Known as the "Jazz Age"
• New Orleans featured prominently in early jazz development

WHAT IS JAZZ?

• Type of music started during the Harlem Renaissance
• Musical language of communication
• Ragtime beat, driving bass, soaring gospel, growl of the blues
• Energetic phenomenon
• Adaptions of popular melodies, hymns, marches, work songs, and the blues

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

• Literary, artistic, and intellectual movement creating new black culture identity
• Transformed "social disillusionment to race pride"
• Contribution to lit. is the "expression of our individual dark-skinned selves"
• Influenced future generations of black writers
• "Negro life seizing its first chances for group expression and self-determination"

WELL-KNOWN ARTISTS

• Louis Armstrong
• Bill Holiday
• Duke Ellington
• Bessie Smith
• King Oliver

WELL-KNOWN SONGS

• What a Wonderful World - Armstrong
• Swing, Brother, Swing - Holiday
• No One Knows When You're Down and Out - Smith
• The Dippermouth Blues - King Oliver
• Satin Doll - Ellington

EFFECT ON SOCIETY

• Influential on all apects of society
• Lessened the racial tensions in post war period
• Musicians/artists given opportunity to step forward
• Using energy in early part of the decade, jazz took a different role, as glue
• Soften the blow and give people necessary joy

SOURCES

• www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/studproj/is3099/jazzcult/20sjazz/
• www.jass.com/jazzo.html
• www.history.com/topics/black-history/harlem-renaissance
• www.allyourjazz.com2008/07/an-introduction-to-jazzs-influene-on-
• society-the-4th-of-a-4-part-series-on-the-essentials-of-jazz/