Whites began blackening their faces and imitating slave dancers as early as the 1800s. John During, one of the first American professional dancers, described parts of his routine in 1789 as containing "shuffles A movement of slave dancers. The first worldwide dance imitating slave dancers was the "Jump Jim Crow" by Thomas Rice in 1828 this dance copied the movement of a crippled Slave and became the basis for an era of American entertainment founded on the crude Stereo type of the dancing slave took it and adapted it to their out style After beginning in New York City, progressive, or cool, jazz developed primarily on the West Coast in the late 1940s and early 50s. Intense yet ironically relaxed tonal sonorities are the major characteristic of this jazz form, while the melodic line is less convoluted than in bop. Lester Young's style was fundamental to the music of the cool saxophonists Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, and Stan Getz .
Her friends and family from her hometown of Santos Suárez neighborhood in Havana, Cuba. Once people in the Americas' found out about Celia Cruz she was famous worldwide. She performed from New York, New York to Paris, France. She was a singing and dancing sensation. The video Celia Cruz- Guantamera had drums that sound like bongos, more than one conga, the tempo to the instruments
The European part being mainly the melodies and harmony of the Andalucia region of Spain (the homeland of the Conquistadors), while the African part in Salsa is mainly from the western coast of Africa where the slave trade was most prevalent.” ("Justsalsa.com," n.d, p. 1) It is said that “Between 1930 and 1960 there were musicians from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico and South America coming to New York to perform. They brought their own native rhythms and musical forms with them, but as they listened to each other and played music together, the musical influences mixed, fused and evolved.” (latinmusic.about.com, Lilich, n.d, p. 1) “This type of musical hybridization gave birth to the 1950s creation of the mambo from son, conjunto and jazz traditions. Continuing musical fusion went on to include what we know today as the cha cha cha, rhumba, conga and, in the 1960s, salsa.” (latinmusic.about.com, Lilich, n.d, p. 1) The type of instruments used in salsa music is what makes salsa music so unique. Salsa music has a heavy use of percussion (clave, maracas, conga, bongo, tambora, bato, cowbell.) Other salsa instruments include
Ragtime was big during the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s and originated in the southern United States. Ragtime jazz was played on the piano with a short, staccato left hand part and the right hand playing a syncopated melody. A very famous ragtime piece is “The Entertainer”, by Scott Joplin and is a
He was a student and a performer at the Denishawn Dance Company that was founded by the modern dancers Ruth Dennis and Ted Shawn. Jack put together a modern dance for jazz, and to make it more motivational for technical jazz and artistic jazz dances. Also, while he was in training he got steps from modern dancing, and came up with the idea of a dance, called low to the ground. With this it gave jazz dance a sense of power and a sense of gravity. In which the two things that were a big part of jazz dance were isolation and syncopation, Jack was interested, and because of this it plays a big part in jazz dance today.
Swing music was dance music performed by big bands and featured complex solo improve acts by some of the best musicians in the scene. Swing was broadcast on the radio from coast to coast nightly and many Americans would tune in to dance all night to the upbeat tempo. In the 1930s, the Kansas City Jazz movement marked the transition from the big band style usually seen to the more improvised bebop. Bebop started to emerge in the 1940s and shifted from the danceable styles like swing, to more of a challenging musician’s music. Differing greatly from swing music, bebop was music that was supposed to be enjoyed by listening to and not danced to.
Ra Shawn Averitte February 4 2013 P.E. 179 Zumba During the 1920-50s there was a Cuban music craze around the world including in the US, especially in New York where there were many Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants. Cuban music such as son (pronounced "sown"), guaracha, mambo, bolero and chachacha were very popular. Each of these music styles had (and still has) its own dance In New York musicians began mixing the music with jazz and it was called "Latin jazz" for many, many years. Or in many cases the musicians would put the name of the ryhthm of each inidvidual song on the record.
Lindy hop is an African-American dance that originated in the Savoy Ballroom Harlem, New York in 1926. It is a mix of different dances including the Charleston, Jazz and Tap. The dance came around the time that Jazz music evolved and is a member of the swing dance family. It is a partner dance that consists of both 8 and 6 count steps and is quite fast. The dance style involved many kicks flicks and turns.
Natives, who had their own highly developed musical traditions, quickly mastered European musical practices. African music was also brought to Mexico during the early colonial period. With all the sweet sounds of the violins against the brilliance of the trumpets, and the deep sound of the guitarro, the resulting sound is the heart and soul of Mexico. It is important to remember Mariachi music- is not just music to be played and sung. From the very start it was music to be danced.
Describing Cuban Music ‘Canto Para Elewa y Chango’ is a hip hop song performed by Los Orishas, which is a Cuban hip hop group formed and started in the early 1900s. The whole song can be classified into different sections, for me, I would make it three basic sections, including solely music (introductory music and bridge), the rapping part and the singing component (chorus). The contour of melody is quite varied. For example: the introduction music (reference timing: 00:01-00:27) is arranged in a series of repeated falling scale. This particular section of music will recur in the later part of the music.