Scott Joplin had played in New York, and other great musicians followed in his footsteps. After The Original Dixieland Jazz Band played on Broadway, jazz musicians imitated the New Orleans sound. While not attaining the undisciplined and wildly erratic beat of New Orleans jazz, the popularity of jazz in New York increased drastically. The 1920s proved to be a Golden Age of jazz in New York. Jazz was diverse and appealed to people from every echelon of society.
Sharon Bellingeri English III: 1 Mrs. Sledden 25, May 2011 Sounds of a Nation The loud, ringing sound of a trumpet’s blare, the fresh rhythm of guitars, and the clear crisp voices uplifted in song; these were just a few of the common sounds that could be heard during the 1920s. The Jazz Age incorporated more than just jazz, with blues booming, ballads and ragtime filling the air, and show tunes enrapturing audiences on and off the stage, the 1920s were alive with all kinds of music. The 1920s brought significant changes to music in America with new musicians, styles, and innovations, all of which would influence music around the world for years to come. Jazz music was a significant source of music in the 1920s, a style which originated
To what extent did The Ku Klux Klan prevented African Americans from gaining Civil Rights in the years 1960-64? Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the Ku Klux Klan re-emerged, feeling that their goal of white supremacy was being challenged by the Civil Rights Campaign. Between these years they created many problems for the campaign, and could even be blamed for the lack of Civil Rights legislation in this period. One of the key ways in which the Klan blocked any progress was through intimidation and fear. In many Southern States the force and presence of the Klan was enough to dissuade African Americans from joining the campaign - Mississippi, as state with the highest amount of Klan activity also had the lowest amount of registered African American voters, and the lowest amount of NAACP activists.
Taking African American music and making it into rock ‘n’ roll is what Elvis did, helping whites recognize how good their music was but also taking other peoples tunes and making more money off of them. We all have our own opinions on what we really think about Elvis Presley. Once rock ‘n’ roll came out white communities thought it was wrong, after a while it shaped racial attitudes because everybody liked this type of music, having this is common brought both races together. It started all with the youth during that time, they are the ones who followed and enjoyed the music even though it was looked badly upon by their parents. The youth is
Louis Armstrong liked to take lead of the band and what they played, so most of the other band members had no say in what they wanted to play. This second Hot Five played music that was specifically arranged as opposed to the more freewheeling improvised passages in the earlier Hot Five structures. A tentative movement toward the kind of fully arranged horn sections that would dominate swing music a decade later was starting to become fashionable, and this second Armstrong group embraced a rudimentary version of it, with Don Redmon as arranger providing some written-out section parts. Jimmy Strong on clarinet and Fred Robinson on trombone, were not as strong soloists as Dodd’s and Ory had been with the earlier band, but with pianist Earl Hines Armstrong here met a musician who was more nearly his equal technically and creatively than any other in either band. Thus these sessions resulted in some of the most important masterpieces of early jazz, of which West End Blues is arguably the best known.
Black people lacked a voice in the early 19'00s and they needed a way to express themselves. They would put their heart and soul into what they were experiencing in music. Jazz not only being entertaining but also expressive. I can recall a quote from the movie that said if every piece of African American history was to be wiped out, jazz music alone would suffice to define us as a people and make us credible for helping to add to U.S history. Such strong words when it comes to
His style then became simpler, replacing the experimentation of his earlier years with a more mature approach that used every note to its greatest advantage. He rerecorded some of his earlier songs with great results. In 1924, Armstrong enjoyed a brief stint with bandleader and arranger Fletcher Henderson in New York City. By the time jazz pianist Lil Hardin, who would become the second of his three wives, persuaded Armstrong to work independently around 1925, he had switched from the cornet to the trumpet. During the next few years he made recordings fronting his own musicians; depending on the number assembled, they were known as the Hot Five or the Hot Seven.
During the listening comprehension course, there has been one topic which, I think, prevailed – the problem of race. It goes without saying that America has always been a very conservative country; however, it is very surprising that a nation made up of people with various cultural and racial backgrounds used to have such a hostile attitude towards black people. The social and cultural revolution began to sparkle in the 1950's, when Rosa Parks refused to sit at the very back of a bus, the only seat she could occupy. The blacks started fighting racial discrimination exemplified, for example, by universities which allowed only white students. Black people had little possibility of gaining a satisfying level of education, they were discriminated
African Americans set new goals for themselves as they moved north to the nation’s cities. The Harlem renaissance was a literary and artistic movement celebrating African- American culture. Literature was important well-educated blacks used their writing to express and portray heritage, and described daily lives of being black in a white world. Talent just didn’t lie within the writing region it expanded to form to performing and the most popular style of music; jazz. The 1920s brought good and bad changes to Americans in the United States.
McCandless thought that society was corrupted and evil institution. He wanted to go as far away from it as possible. He did not want to be linked to the type of society that we have point blank. His attitude towards life i was very hard to get yet simple depending on how you looked at it or explained it. He abhored society but couldn’t help, but be a part of it.