When a couple of white composers introduced "ragtime" music, many black performers 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. Miles Davis played an important part in the early stages, and the influence of virtuoso pianist Lennie Tristano was all-pervasive. The music was accepted more gracefully by the public and critics than bop, and
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. Around the same time, Armstrong is credited with the invention of the jazz technique of scat singing--legend has it that Armstrong dropped his sheet music during a recording session and had to substitute vocal improvisations until someone picked up the sheets for him. Also during this period, his experimentations led him to break free of the more rigid Dixieland style of jazz to pave the way for a more modern jazz
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.
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
White teenagers practically ate it up in the post-World War II era. Altchuler quotes Mitch Miller, a talent scout for Columbia records as saying “young people might be protesting the Southern tradition of not having anything to do with colored people. There is a steady-and healthy-breaking down of color barriers in the United States; perhaps rhythm and blues rage…is another expression of it” (17). Miller believed white youth embracing R&B was a huge leap for racial harmony. By the mid-1950s, R&B began to gain major traction as the popularity of the radio began to surge.
Jazz is music like no other. It’s considered the “musical language of communication” and it’s also the first American Native style of music to affect many cultures around the world. Jazz is a type of African-American music that originated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the South of the United States. This type of music is a combination of European harmony and different types of African musical elements such as blue notes, improvising, polyrhythms, and syncopation. As it started spreading around the world, Jazz made an amazing impression on national, regional and local cultures forming many distinctive styles of jazz.
Jazz changed the world for Blacks because it gave them the freedom to express themselves without constraint. Jazz has no limits, which gave Blacks the freedom to be original. The first known form of jazz in the United States was called Ragtime and it was introduced in 1895 by Ernest Hogan. New Orleans became the “official” birthplace of jazz in the 1910’s because many jazz artists performed in brothels and bars in what s known as “Storyville.” Performers from New Orleans then traveled to big cities such as New York, Chicago, and Kansas City. Louie Armstrong and Charlie Parker came along and helped introduce the world to Scatting.
Along with the arrival of jazz icons people found another way of expressing their emotions during these depressing times in the form of dancing. Bands began to play in an alternate form of jazz called Dixieland and other styles so people can dance[2]. From a contrasting point of view Classical music has an alternate beginning and a very controversial development. The root of its origin date way back in the 1750’s, where the patronage system of the Baroque began to die out and was replaced by the first public concerts where people paid to attend. However, in this modern day society classical music spans from over a much longer time frame from 1600 up to the present day.
Should our intellectual reason be the answers to our imaginative thoughts and desires, or should it be a harmony of reason and moral sense? After the Civil War the greatest nation on earth had more opportunities and more freedom “On the other hand, there was dissatisfaction with problems caused by the industrialization and urbanization, as well. These developments during the Revolution, an artistic, literary and intellectual movement gained strength, which is called Romanticism with Dark Romanticism being one of its subgenres.” (Dincer, 218) Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator’s psychological disorder and sense of guilt serves to display the Dark Romanticism within the short story in which shows the human impulse towards irrationality and contrast the Rationalist belief of intellectual reason. The following paper describes the Romantic Movement towards the irrational thought of the human mind and how this ideology was influenced by the Rationalist Movement who believed that logical reasoning was the answer to understanding the human race. Then it shows how Edgar Allan Poe uses gruesome imagery and literary devices to portray the views of Dark Romanticism in his short story the “Tell-Tale Heart”.
The Role of Aestheticism in Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Around the time of the later 1800’s, in the Victorian Era during which Oscar Wilde was at the peak of his career, the aestheticism movement was a popular social attitude formed in opposition to traditional Victorian values. With the influence of his poetry and plays, Oscar Wilde was a major proponent of this movement, and its philosophies are a dominant theme in his novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. In the novel, the characters’ revelations about the soul, their pursuit of pleasure, and their treatment of art all reflect the ideas supported by the aesthetes’ philosophy on life. When it was first published in 1890 in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ was purported to be immoral, so Wilde revised his novel and had it published again a year later with the preface that clearly outlines the aesthetic approach he intended. In this preface he states that “There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book.