Jazz

Jazz

1. Geography

   • New Orleans - 20th century
     • Chicago
       • New York CIty
         • All over US
           • All around the world

2. History

   • Jazz was invented by African-American musicians in New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1800s.
     • The music became more popular in the 1900s and took the country by storm in the 1920s.
       • In the 1920s, the center for jazz moved from New Orleans to Chicago and New York City.
   • Music was the way slaves escaped
     • Civil war had an important paper for its development

3. Social context

   • During the Jazz Age, illegal clubs called "speakeasies" were opened all over the United States. These clubs featured jazz music, dancing, and sold alcohol.
   • Kid Ory's Original Creole Jazz Band and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings as well as musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.
   • Famous Musicians
     • Louis Armstrong, West and Blues
     • Benny Goodman
     • Dizzy Gillespie
     • Charlie Parker
   • Jazz bands often played on steamboats traveling on the Mississippi River to entertain travelers.
   • The United Nations named April 30th as the official International Jazz Day.

4. Cultural context

   • Marriage between African and Europeaon musical systems
     • Instruments were from Europe
       • Typical jazz instruments include drums, guitar, piano, saxophone, trumpet, clarinet, trombone, and the double bass.
     • Afroamericans/African musicians and singers
   • The idea of liberty was interpreted in every song, slaves wanted that.
     • It was not only in the US, but this was listen all around the world
   • Jazz influenced new styles such as funk, rock and roll, and hip hop.

5. Economic context

   • Jazz helps to decide in which infrastructures it is a priority to invest
   • King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton or Johnny Dodds, among many others, moved to the "city of the wind" and recorded their first albums there, in the early 1920s.