Music has always had a huge impact on life. Music is inspiring, music can bring people together, music is constantly changing, and there are thousands of types for anyone to listen to. Music is and always will be here and is constantly changing, people producing and creating new styles of it. A certain genre of music has never been dominate, it mostly spread out. There are times in history where very specific eras have increased the popularity of some genres. Different eras have different styles of music. Music isn't just sounds or words, it has meaning; throughout time music has changed, bringing new styles and will continue to be a huge part of history.
Music has always been around. Music has been in native American tribal language, war …show more content…
They were called the roaring twenties, but took a turn for the worst when the stock market crashed in 1929. A new style of music came into the scene and it was the Big Band Era, this was the type of music that was jazz and swing music. Swing music is a strong music with double bass, typically dancing music. The main founders of this band was Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Glenn Gray, Chick Webb , and Jimmie Lunceford. The main person who was called the King of Swing was Benny Goodman. After the swing came the Rhythm and Blues. Each of these types of music had and huge outcome on music and made allot of music what it is today. It was a type of music that had a positive and optimistic vibe, it has this don’t worry everything will be ok. This type of music helped exponentially in getting America out of the great depression. “The music was so indelibly etched into American Culture that virtually no person living at the time was not touched in some deep way by it. Swing music was appreciated at many levels. It fulfilled the yearning for a sentimental, romantic escape from the mundane and at the same time was appreciated for its excitement and even as fine art.(http://www.redhotjazz.com/bigbandessay.html)”. Music has helped so much, the people were depressed and hurting but when in doubt they had music. When World War II was coming there were about fifty or so famous Big Bands. Sadly all things must come to an end, in the December of 1946 the economy made a turn for the worst causing all of the bands to break up. It was called the Depression of 1946 and was the largest Economic downfall since the Great Depression. Although the iconic Big Band era has died the music that the bands created still lives today. These phenomenal musicians paved a way for what is Blues and Jazz today, and gave the people hope with their
Music has always been around. Music has been in native American tribal language, war …show more content…
They were called the roaring twenties, but took a turn for the worst when the stock market crashed in 1929. A new style of music came into the scene and it was the Big Band Era, this was the type of music that was jazz and swing music. Swing music is a strong music with double bass, typically dancing music. The main founders of this band was Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Glenn Gray, Chick Webb , and Jimmie Lunceford. The main person who was called the King of Swing was Benny Goodman. After the swing came the Rhythm and Blues. Each of these types of music had and huge outcome on music and made allot of music what it is today. It was a type of music that had a positive and optimistic vibe, it has this don’t worry everything will be ok. This type of music helped exponentially in getting America out of the great depression. “The music was so indelibly etched into American Culture that virtually no person living at the time was not touched in some deep way by it. Swing music was appreciated at many levels. It fulfilled the yearning for a sentimental, romantic escape from the mundane and at the same time was appreciated for its excitement and even as fine art.(http://www.redhotjazz.com/bigbandessay.html)”. Music has helped so much, the people were depressed and hurting but when in doubt they had music. When World War II was coming there were about fifty or so famous Big Bands. Sadly all things must come to an end, in the December of 1946 the economy made a turn for the worst causing all of the bands to break up. It was called the Depression of 1946 and was the largest Economic downfall since the Great Depression. Although the iconic Big Band era has died the music that the bands created still lives today. These phenomenal musicians paved a way for what is Blues and Jazz today, and gave the people hope with their