Founded in New Orleands in the early 1900's was the greatest platform for success. New Orleans was a heaven beacuse there were various coultures in a confind musical city. When Jazz became trendy everyone wanted it play, letting people from all walks of life add thier personal flare to it. That is the beauty of Jazz, though there are guidlines to what makes Jazz music there are also infanite amount of possiblities to create something unique. One of Jazz's greatest weapons for success is improvization.
Explore the presentation of Gatsby’s parties and his guests In Chapter 3 we discover that Gatsby who is renowned for throwing elaborate parties everyday. It seemed that people just came and left when they chose “men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and stars.” Moths are creatures that are attracted to light and the people are compared to the moths because the people could arrive at Gatsby’s parties when the stars come out and leave before dawn as the people like the moths are attracted to the light. During the 1920s there was prohibition in America so the sale, manufacturing and transportation of alcohol were forbidden. The champagne at Gatsby’s party was illegal this suggests that Gatsby could be involved in some precarious things. Gatsby’s guests admire his Rolls – Royce, his marble swimming pool, his station-wagon and his “corps of caterers” the alliteration of this emphasizes how many caterers Gatsby has.
Or else, Nick would have continued drinking. As he is drinking, Nick comments, “After eight o’clock, the apartment was full of cheerful sun.” Drinking among his new friends, he becomes happy because those around are joyful. Drinking alcohol in Gatsby was a form of rebelling against the prohibition act. The prohibition act was the U.S government’s attempt to ban the sell and use of alcohol. However, the effects of the Prohibition were
Hip hop originated when New York DJ’s began isolating the percussion breaks on funk and rock records. Pioneering DJ’s such as Grand Master Flash, Africa Bambataa, DJ Jazzy J started scratching jazz and jazz funk records creating a new sound with immense energy. DJ’s and hip hop producers have always gravitated to jazz records for their richness and flexibility due majorly to jazz’s instrumental based structure. This makes a song ideal for sampling. In its early days
For example Hanns Eisler (composer), Bruno Walter (conductor), Fritz Kreisler (violinist). In Berlin at the time there was a huge interest in Jazz so musicians quickly became popular throughout the dancehalls and clubs. Max Liebermann (1847 – 1935) was probably the best known Jewish artist, famous for his paintings, prints and etchings. He was able to use his own personal inherited wealth to allow him to leave a career in law and then to build an impressive collection of Impressionist art. Kurt Weill (1900 – 1950) was symbiotic with German theatre culture.
This building played an important role during the 1950’s when there was a boom in the popularity of Latin music. Several famous Latin music artists played there, like the “Big Three,” which consisted of Machito, Tito Puente, and Tito Rodriguez. They introduced this new type of music to people of several races. It caused the Palladium to become an interracial ballroom, which was rare during that period. Although the popularity of the music eventually declined, it doesn’t change the fact that the ballroom is an important part of Latin music culture.
Only men were known to smoke cigarettes. Even though this act seemed so drastic, the most dramatic change seen in women of the 1920s was when they began to drink alcohol. To make it worse, the 1920s was the era of prohibition. Women often carried flasks of liquor on their hips so it would be easy to access it. Flappers had a scandalous image as the "giddy flapper, rouged and clipped, careening in a drunken stupor to the lewd strains of a jazz quartet,"
Alehouses, gambling dens, and brothels were easy to find. In the book Tom Richmond passed a bar and heard a drunken Jem Bucks singing, with a chorus following behind him. The tone he used showed this was not an uncommon sight. Drinking was a past time participated by most, at almost any hour of the day seen frequently in the book. "Sir, a drop o' good liquor is no bad thing, as you say, and mayhap you might like to taste some'at out o' my bottle.” Alcohol was not just a past time, but also used as “Liquid courage” on multiple occasions.
Their magnates grew wealthy as they opened up the country and created grand resort hotels. Henry Flagler and Henry Plant were responsible for opening Florida to the grand tradition of luxurious travel. Flagler and Plant, both railroad tycoons, became hoteliers on an impressive scale, catering to the conspicuous consumption of the Gilded Age. Their hotels brought to Florida grand architecture, and most of the time, experimenting with different styles. The hotels of Flagler and Plant “relied upon the decorative and associational appeal of architectural styles to create luxury winter resort hotels that exhibited an unprecedented sense of fantasy and conspicuous luxury.” (fig.
They became notorious for their elaborately themed parties along with extreme drug use. The paparazzi quickly became fascinated by such antics and costumes. From the constant attention, the media deemed this group the Bright Young People. This was an early example of celebrity culture; this rhetoric of rebellion is described by Thomas Franks in ‘Commodify Your Dissent’. Because of the paparazzi’s obsession with the group, the Bright Young People gained many participants.