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Jazz is the art
of expression set to music! Jazz is said to
be the fundamental rhythms of human life and man’s
contemporary reassessment of his traditional values.
Volumes have been written on the origins of jazz
based on black American life-styles. The early
influences of tribal drums and the development of
gospel, blues and field hollers seems to point out
that jazz has to do with human survival and the
expression of life.
The origin of the word "jazz" is most often
traced back to a vulgar term used for sexual acts.
Some of the early sounds of jazz where associated
with whore houses and "ladies of ill repute."
However, the meaning of jazz soon became a musical
art form, whether under composition guidelines or
improvisation, jazz reflected spontaneous melodic
phrasing.
Jazz developed in
the latter part of the 19th cent. from black work songs,
field shouts, sorrow songs, hymns, and spirituals whose
harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic elements were
predominantly African. Because of its spontaneous,
emotional, and improvisational character, and because it
is basically of black origin and association, jazz has
to some extent not been accorded the degree of
recognition it deserves. European audiences have often
been more receptive to jazz, and thus many American jazz
musicians have become expatriates.
Those who play jazz
have often expressed the feelings that jazz should
remain undefined, jazz should be felt. "If you
gotta ask, you’ll never know" ---Louis Armstrong.
At the outset, jazz was slow to win acceptance
by the general public, not only because of its
cultural origin, but also because it tended to suggest
loose morals and low social status. However, jazz gained
a wide audience when white orchestras adapted or
imitated it, and became legitimate entertainment in the
late 1930s when Benny Goodman led racially mixed groups
in concerts at Carnegie Hall. Show tunes became common
vehicles for performance, and, while the results were
exquisite, rhythmic and harmonic developments were
impeded until the mid-1940s.
information sourced from:
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All About Jazz:
History of Jazz Time Line
Brief Chronology of African-American Music and Jazz
Before 1850
Circa 1850
During the Civil War
Slave Songs of the
United States published by William Francis Allen,
Charles Pickford Ware and Lucy McKim Garrison.
Slave Songs of the
Georgia Sea Islands published by Lydia Parrish.
After the Civil War
Late 1800's
1890's
Early 1900's
1910 - 1920
1920's
1930's
1940's
1950's
1960's
1970's
1980's
1990's
information sourced from:
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