Duke Ellington

Johnny Mercer's song "Tangerine" captures this romanticism, as it tells the story of a glamour girl from Argentina, "the beauty of her race," who turns out to be empty and shallow, and her dark eyed beauty merely due to artful makeup. So while people in the U.S. romanticized Latin Americans, they also, using varying levels of subtlety, disparaged the very cultures they looked to for inspiration in songs, films, dances, and other entertainments. The American public was not alone in looking to…

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…

Zora Neale Hurston served an influential role during this time period. It is important to understand the significance of this era in history and how African American people were able to develop and adapt their own ideals, morals, and customs through creativity and art. Therefore, the focus of the exhibition is on the African American search for identity in the post-slavery period and the creation and self-expression through art during the Harlem Renaissance. As a novelist, anthropologist, and…

commonality, and created music that he enjoyed playing, rather than composing songs that fit into the standardized “jazz mold.” This decade introduced some immensely talented jazz musicians with the innovative Miles Davis, jazz orchestra bandleader Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker with his improvisational skills, and the “Maharaja of the keyboard,” Oscar Peterson. Although Brubeck’s musicianship may not have been as good as these jazz legends, he used their music to influence his own compositions;…

America reports on the popular aspects of American news such as agriculture, technology, travel, and most importantly, jazz. Jazz, being universal, was beloved everywhere, and people around the world would tune in every day to hear artists like Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie. Voice of America also reported on important events, such as the berlin riots and the space race. Another way Voice of America created dialogue was by broadcasting its news to countries where free speech was limited…

near the 20th century and has been an influential stylistic form of music ever since. Jazz really began flaring up in the early or roaring twenties. Some of the biggest names that arose during the twenties were King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington. These are…

Jazz has been around for many years. The jazz age didn’t come around until the 1920’s. Jazz originated in New Orleans in the early 1900’s known as the “New Orleans sound”. Jazz influenced many aspects of society. The jazz era was a period of economic prosperity, cultural flowering, and the shaking up of social morals. The 1920’s marked the beginning of a new decade for jazz music, also known as the Roaring twenties. Jazz is mostly distinguished by its improvisation and its rhythmic urgency.…

from Western culture since the 1930s” were able to get a fresh of breath air, as far as music is concerned (Richmond); there were numerous concerts right off the bat, ranging from the Ney York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, to artists like Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, and Benny Goodman, who had a successful 32-concert-tour himself in the Soviet…

Brendan Schiltz 24 February 2015 Professor Sweetin MUS-109 Home Assignment 1 African American work songs were originally developed during slavery, between the 1700’s and 1900's. Because they were part of a culture where they couldn’t write, they decided to record the songs orally when the era of slavery came to an end after 1865. Many of their origins in African song traditions may have been sung to remind the Africans of home, while others were forced to sing these songs by their owners to…

There are many black writers who have been interested in the cause of the cultural emancipation of the African Americans. They also had a stand against the slavery system and the unjust American society. Resultantly, that Harlem became the sacred place of the Negro and the center of the black community in America. The Harlem community becames the center and the Godfather for African American people. Many stories of protest and struggle were written by writers and black critics, some of them…