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Jazz is |
A combination of a partly planned and partly spontaneous musical dialogue |
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To create jazz, musicians use |
Inspiration, musical theory, past styles of music, and their life experience |
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Jazz has been around for |
100 years |
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Jazz first appeared in |
New Orleans |
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Jazz evolved from |
Ragtime, brass band music, spirituals, and blues |
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The musicians responsible for devising jazz's major elements were primarily |
African Americans |
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Jazz has influenced the following kinds of musical styles |
Hip hop, 20th Century classical music, rock, and rap |
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Jazz has been influenced by the following kinds of musical styles |
Traditional African music, classical music, Latin music, and the blues |
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In 1987, Congress declared jazz |
An American national treasure |
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Jazz has become a popular element in American lifestyle and attitude in that |
Jazz terms have become an accepted part of everyday language and slang |
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What issue do most closely influenced the creation of jazz |
Social issues |
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Jazz has been most intimately linked with legal and social equality for |
African Americans |
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In the 1920s, Jazz symbolized the cultural struggle between |
Modernist and traditionalist |
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The "jazz age" pertains to what period of time in American history |
The 1920s |
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The "new" jazz music was thought to be a rejection of Victorian values and |
Traditional ideas of what "good" music was supposed to be |
