Many performers played at venues like this because many people would go there to get alcohol, and enjoy the music. Performers traveled to Kansas City during this time because it was home to many speakeasies in the 18th and Vine district. The area was isolated from whites. Blacks were accepted here. They were able to dance, sing, play, and drink without worry about law or discrimination.
Bands traveled around the country to perform which could incur up to $30 in gas per trip. Gasoline prices fluctuated from $.25-.30 (Historical Gas Prices, 1919-2004) at the end of the Jazz Age causing travel to be quite expensive for large groups. It was cheaper for smaller bands to travel; so many large bands broke apart. Demand for live music began to decrease at the start of the Great Depression because families were too poor to spend their funds recreationally. “25 percent of all workers and 37 percent of all nonfarm workers were completely out of work,” (Smiley).
Sonny admits that the woman’s voice at the street meeting reminded him of what heroin felt like. The narrator listens to his brother and lets him know that music is a positive factor and can be an alternate to drug use. This shows the reader that the narrator is showing sympathy and has a great deal of understanding about Sonny’s suffering. Their sense of understanding becomes so strong that Sonny invites his brother to watch him play. During the performance the narrator begins to analyze the music that Sonny and the group were playing.
Originating in the homeless lands of the southern united states jazz music became a voice of the people. Early jazz musicians put their feelings into their music. They always seamed to tell a story, whether it be about racial discrimination ,Or a song about poverty in the south. or maybe just a mixture of experiences they went through. Black people lacked a voice in the early 19'00s and they needed a way to express themselves.
These cities and states are really taking advantage of this money; they can make good use of it, imagine what it can do for California or other places. The states that have not legalized it yet are the ones losing because prostitution is fast and easy money, “the annual prostitution tax of about $3,100…” in certain brothels (Bilefsky). “In the Netherlands… about 20,000 prostitutes pay taxes, according to the Prostitution Information Center in Amsterdam” (Bilefsky). These are a lot of prostitutes that pay taxes; now just imagine how much money that goes to the states who tax them. In most brothels politicians say that “in a typical thirty- day period it nets its investors $88,000” (Leuchtag).
Basketball jerseys are a huge market that was impacted by the lockout. Experiencing a loss of close to $10 million in jerseys worldwide. With new young talent coming from Spain, Ricky Rubio, Spanish participation in the jersey market increased, but with the lockout, will decline a projected 25%. Two of the biggest advertisers that heavily advertise through the NBA are Sprite, and T-Mobile, and without the airtime to show them, they are losing notoriety. Without NBA players constantly in the spotlight, gives these advertisers less ways to reach the market.
Jazz became so popular during these times, because life in America back than was rough for a lot of people. Some jazz was sung about these problems and how people dealt with them and their opinions on life. Other types of jazz were played to bring excitement to people’s everyday lives and give them a time where they could dance and enjoy life. One of the first types of jazz that contributed a lot to the jazz we know today was ragtime. Ragtime was big during the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s and originated in the southern United States.
During this research paper I learned a lot of interesting things that I did not know about in the 1920’s. Women were dressed very sexual and the men were happy about this. I was very surprised about how little the sports players were paid during the 1920’s. In this present day some players make over 20 million dollars a year. That’s a lot but don’t forget that 4 dollars now is like 1 dollar back
In the early twentieth century, it is commonly believed jazz evolved into a popular music style in New Orleans. Small bands would play gigs and perform ragtime music with a blues twist, relying heavily on improvisation. Jazz during this time began combining marching band instruments added with the ragtime blues mix, and eventually became what we see jazz as today. In 1917, The Original Dixieland Jass Band made the first jazz recording with Lively Stable Blues. In that same year, jazz recordings became a lot more popular, and in the following year, jazz was taken to Europe by James Reese Europe and his “Hellfighters” band.
As you may know, the origin of the jazz is blues which played among the black American before 1920s' in New Orleans. So many people have image that jazz is played by black American mainly. Of course, there are lot of black jazz musicians, but in recent years, the jazz is getting more popularity in west/east Europe and Middle-East, especially Israel. They mixed the folk music in their country into cutting-age jazz music. I think it is very interesting trend of the current jazz scene.