A particular episode of The Colbert Report comes to mind when this topic is brought up. I 'm speaking of the episode where Hugh Laurie is interviewed shortly after his blues album, Didn 't It Rain, went triple platinum. In this interview Laurie states that Jazz is Americas greatest gift to the world, to which Steven Colbert responds by asking what Britain’s greatest gift to the world was. Colbert answers his own question saying that America is Britain’s greatest gift to the world. All perfectly relevant, being that this British actor is best know for his role as an American doctor in House M.D., and humorous, it does raise the question of where does Jazz come from? Well America, of course, I know that jazz was developed in New Orleans about
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It seems that jazz has had more influence on European music than European music on jazz, the converse of what I expected to find. It seems Europe did little other than supply the instruments for jazz. At this point I want to open my search back up to the entire internet, not just EBSCO Host. I have found that not many scholarly articles are published on the topic of jazz’s conception. Ill plug another google search, “History of Jazz.” Here I discovered that not only did jazz influence improvisation in popular music but jazz musicians had invented one of the most iconic American pop music instruments, the drum set, after being lead to teacher.scholastic.com. It was here that I learned a great deal about jazz but less about its origin as I intend to do, like its use in spiritual and social functions. Now is the time to turn to wikipedia, although wikipedia isn 't exactly a scholarly source it doe cite scholarly sources regularly, after reading something cited on wiki fining the original article is really convenient and speeds up the research process. Contrary to what I found on EBSCO the open internet seems to think that jazz has a European parentage (Hennessey). Jazz shares aspects of European music such as European harmony (Kirchner). The use of 12 bar chord progressions were surely indicative of Europe’s role in the origin of
It seems that jazz has had more influence on European music than European music on jazz, the converse of what I expected to find. It seems Europe did little other than supply the instruments for jazz. At this point I want to open my search back up to the entire internet, not just EBSCO Host. I have found that not many scholarly articles are published on the topic of jazz’s conception. Ill plug another google search, “History of Jazz.” Here I discovered that not only did jazz influence improvisation in popular music but jazz musicians had invented one of the most iconic American pop music instruments, the drum set, after being lead to teacher.scholastic.com. It was here that I learned a great deal about jazz but less about its origin as I intend to do, like its use in spiritual and social functions. Now is the time to turn to wikipedia, although wikipedia isn 't exactly a scholarly source it doe cite scholarly sources regularly, after reading something cited on wiki fining the original article is really convenient and speeds up the research process. Contrary to what I found on EBSCO the open internet seems to think that jazz has a European parentage (Hennessey). Jazz shares aspects of European music such as European harmony (Kirchner). The use of 12 bar chord progressions were surely indicative of Europe’s role in the origin of