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created by a mastermind of jazz named Louis Armstrong. There are many famous jazz composers, including Jelly Roll Morton, Buddy Bolden, and Miles Davis. Most people consider jazz being created in New Orleans, but its roots began from African rhythms. Freed African-American slaves helped create jazz at the end of the 19th century. African music influenced jazz by use of rhythm, improvisation, call and response, and narrative techniques. Rhythm is an important part in jazz. If there is no groove,…

from African American influence brought new styles and freedom in the arts. Historians dubbed the period as the Harlem Renaissance, seeing the upheaval of African American culture and civil rights and the introduction of new artistic styles such as Jazz and Negro Literature. Therefore, which poet represents the ideology of the Harlem Renaissance? One name comes to mind, Langston Hughes, from his beginnings in a low-class black background to the prolific poet that lays in the forefront of such a…

America’s Jazz Age: How the Music started a Movement In the wake of the resolution of World War I, the American people began to work to improve both the public morale and the economy. One main transformation during the early 1920s was the growth in the music industry, in particular, jazz. The onset of the jazz age was a dynamic and controversial movement in American culture, a turning point for racial and sexual relations, and a pivotal moment in the development of technology, which changed…

Considered the pioneer of Anglo-African music and the basis of jazz, the Blues and Ragtime can be traced back to the late nineteenth century, originating in the Mississippi Valley. Distinguished from other musical styles with its strong 4/4 rhythms and twelve-bar structure, the Blues were created by the amalgamation of American folk songs and hymns intertwined with an African beat. Often, the Blues outline the woeful tales of hopeless, unsuccessful people. Forming as an alternative to the Blues…

Poetry is often called literature that provides windows to the soul. This is because many poets instill their own experiences into their works. Yusef Komunyakaa is one of those poets. Through his poems, he reveals the darkness, pain, and atrocities of war he experienced when he served in Vietnam, as well as his experiences growing up in the deep south when the KKK was in power and through the start of the Civil Rights Movement. Growing up in a time of turmoil, and as a African American man in a…

musician. Louis Armstrong was an outstanding jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance Era. He was especially known for his spectacular trumpet playing, unmistakable voice, and exceptionally recognizable, broad smile. The beginning of his inspirational life set forth not how one might expect. Once he discovered music, his dedication and love for the trumpet, as well as singing, changed his life and the history of music. Louis Armstrong was a very influential jazz musician who used his talents…

represented by the man. He is the subject of the piece as the notes create the melody of the music. The other musical idea captured by the lines is the actual melody. In music, there is always a background and a melody. The background, especially in Jazz and Blues music, is very straightforward and rhythmic while the melody lays over the tops and creates shape and form through note changes, crescendos, decrescendos, and changes in instrument or theme. In the same way, the painting has a very…

two decades of the twentieth century, few civilians in Northern states knew about country music, but advances in communication in the 1920s allowed the genre to be played on radios and records throughout the country. Since the “race” recordings of jazz proved successful, record executives made plans to sell the Southern white man’s music to the remaining white population of the South. Unfortunately, though, during this time, few Southerners thought to make music a profession, so the singers were…

Jazz music has evolved greatly over many years establishing a large variety of different styles within it. I will investigate the deepest roots of jazz and also take a look at some of the theory behind. In the 17th to the 19th century the true and honest roots of jazz music were just beginning. Black slaves were placed in the deep south to work in cotton fields where they would sing African spirituals, chants, work songs and field hollers whilst slaving away all day long in the heat of the sun.…

critical role in civilization since its creation. As humans have progressed and evolved so has music. There has been a constant transformation in melodic styles, sounds, and the ways people perform. Rock ‘n Roll gets its origins from the early days of jazz, rhythm and blues, folk, country, and pop. It is a blend of all previous forms of music with its own twist and distinct individuality. Rock ‘n Roll divided generations of Americans, along with inspiring millions of others throughout the world…