Facts
Birthplace of jazz: New Orleans in the early 1900s
As more job opportunities opened in the North, jazz started to move to Chicago and the midwest.
Black Bottom dance and the Charleston were invented. Known as the Dance Age and Jazz Age.
The Jazz Age was a post World War 1 movement.
The birth of jazz music is credited to African Americans, but both black and white Americans alike are responsible for its immense rise in popularity.
Female singers emerged during this period.
African and European influence
Buddy Bolden forms one of the first jazz bands
The role of race and racism in the history of Jazz
Many African Americans feel pride in the fact they founded jazz, as it’s one of their first forms of expression post civil war. Tells …show more content…
In this time period sociologists used the term “Bottom Cultures” to represent the folk culture of minority groups. The evolution of jazz had caused a societal revolution that revealed the African American culture for the first time in the the history of the United States. A handful of white musicians denied that the origin of jazz had come from the culture of african american culture, replacing the name with the “Original Dixieland Jazz Band” as the genesis of Jazz music. We believed this occurred because the “Superior Race” (White people) believed they were the only individuals capable of success.They most likely tried to hide the fact that african americans were the creators of jazz because of how it would make them less superior. They tried to copy their “competitors” work and claim it for themselves which obviously failed miserably. Once the white race was challenged by “Bottom Cultures”, they were socially challenged at a higher level than before. When you think of it, Jazz also contributed to the increase in racial tension because of how it threatened the power of white individuals. In a more positive light, Jazz allowed bottom cultures to rise through the concrete barrier of …show more content…
Women such as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Blanche Calloway have made their mark on history as some of the best jazz performers of all time. For the first time, women were respected equally as men in the same field of work. They were some of the few colored women in that time to have a somewhat “equal” opportunity as men. Women in general were more liberated with how they dressed and how they acted. Jazz ignited a whole new era where women didn’t need to act ‘traditional’. These women were given the nickname ‘flappers’ for the way they walked in their overshoes or galoshes unfastened. Flappers were characterized as young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and listened to jazz music. Though these women were looked down upon the more religious community, they were the reason as to why women became so liberated. The 1920s was the time where women of all color were given the right to vote, the number of working women increased by 25% and women more accepted to drink and smoke in public. Jazz was the breakthrough for women’s liberation.
Race Records Between 1917-1922, many recording companies preferred to work with white jazz bands. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band was the first jazz band to record in 1917. After five years, record companies became convinced that African Americans musicians would be popular with the consumer
Birthplace of jazz: New Orleans in the early 1900s
As more job opportunities opened in the North, jazz started to move to Chicago and the midwest.
Black Bottom dance and the Charleston were invented. Known as the Dance Age and Jazz Age.
The Jazz Age was a post World War 1 movement.
The birth of jazz music is credited to African Americans, but both black and white Americans alike are responsible for its immense rise in popularity.
Female singers emerged during this period.
African and European influence
Buddy Bolden forms one of the first jazz bands
The role of race and racism in the history of Jazz
Many African Americans feel pride in the fact they founded jazz, as it’s one of their first forms of expression post civil war. Tells …show more content…
In this time period sociologists used the term “Bottom Cultures” to represent the folk culture of minority groups. The evolution of jazz had caused a societal revolution that revealed the African American culture for the first time in the the history of the United States. A handful of white musicians denied that the origin of jazz had come from the culture of african american culture, replacing the name with the “Original Dixieland Jazz Band” as the genesis of Jazz music. We believed this occurred because the “Superior Race” (White people) believed they were the only individuals capable of success.They most likely tried to hide the fact that african americans were the creators of jazz because of how it would make them less superior. They tried to copy their “competitors” work and claim it for themselves which obviously failed miserably. Once the white race was challenged by “Bottom Cultures”, they were socially challenged at a higher level than before. When you think of it, Jazz also contributed to the increase in racial tension because of how it threatened the power of white individuals. In a more positive light, Jazz allowed bottom cultures to rise through the concrete barrier of …show more content…
Women such as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Blanche Calloway have made their mark on history as some of the best jazz performers of all time. For the first time, women were respected equally as men in the same field of work. They were some of the few colored women in that time to have a somewhat “equal” opportunity as men. Women in general were more liberated with how they dressed and how they acted. Jazz ignited a whole new era where women didn’t need to act ‘traditional’. These women were given the nickname ‘flappers’ for the way they walked in their overshoes or galoshes unfastened. Flappers were characterized as young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and listened to jazz music. Though these women were looked down upon the more religious community, they were the reason as to why women became so liberated. The 1920s was the time where women of all color were given the right to vote, the number of working women increased by 25% and women more accepted to drink and smoke in public. Jazz was the breakthrough for women’s liberation.
Race Records Between 1917-1922, many recording companies preferred to work with white jazz bands. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band was the first jazz band to record in 1917. After five years, record companies became convinced that African Americans musicians would be popular with the consumer