Swing music

Around the turn of the 1930s, music took an interesting ride with the earliest fully documented particular style of Jazz music emerging, which was centered in New Orleans, Louisiana; swing. It was not only a musical pastime, but a way of life; as those who brought it to us will live on forever. Duke Ellington was a pioneer of Renaissance jazz and one of the great elite jazz artists of his time. His most popular 1930 piece was "It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing". Around 1931,…

category of music. Every person will have their own definition of such a broad category of music. However, attempting to set boundaries and limit the definition of jazz to a simple “Google-like” definition is not only an injustice to the art of jazz, but also to listeners’ ability to appreciate the vast meanings and interpretations of jazz music. Prior to taking a semester long course on understanding jazz, I too was asked to define jazz, and unfortunately being ignorant of the jazz music genre,…

American popular music from the 1930's reflects the cultural and social characteristics that shaped the American identity during the period. The music of the thirties is important when trying to understand the American people during a time of new technology, a massive growing in the population of cities, and a large scale depression. Over the course of the thirties, American taste in music changed dramatically. In the mainstream it moved from the bland and unchallenging "sweet" sound of Guy…

from 1967 to 1990, and contributed to the 1980 edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion of Jazz. The article starts with the date of the swing era, August 21, 1935, when Benny Goodman’s band performed at Palmoar Ballroom in Los Angeles. Harrison stated that “what happened in the 1930s was built on the 1920s…and we must go further back to observe that some of the forces shaping 1930s swing were active in the 1920s.” He examined the artists, Goodman, Carter, Sauter,…

Ellington was born on April 25, 1899 in Washington, D.C. Dukes parents were James Ellington and Daisey Ellington. They were both pianists. Duke Ellington’s inspiration was probably his parents because he was playing piano as a child and focused more on music than his education. Since his parents played piano he was playing piano. What made him famous was that he was pretty much the first one to conduct and make a big-band jazz group. He also led his band for more than a century. Every in the…

vocalese, mainstream, cool, hard bop, Bossa Nova and swing. Swing dancing can be taught or describe as. According to Wiki, “is a form of American music that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s. Swing uses a strong…

grade to begin working to help provide for his family. He was then sent to the Colored Waif's Home for Boys after an accident occurred on New Year's Eve. He got music lessons on the corners of New Orleans and fell in love with music. In 1914, He was released from the home , and he prepared for a life of doing what he loved, making music. (http://www.biography.com/people/louis-armstrong-9188912) He still had to work selling newspapers and hauling coal to the red-light district, a famed part of…

every part of America. Jazz music was mostly affected by the depression, people began staying “home and listening to the radio, instead of spending their money and going to nightclubs” (History of Jazz). In effort to save the jazz music and its popularity, “symbolic relationships” arose between agents and musicians during the creation of the “music business”. Working together with the new music business” came many musicians that influenced the beginning of the “Swing Era”. Benny Goodman and…

example of the techniques used in this type of jazz. I really enjoyed the upbeat feeling of this song. Listening to the notes played, they appeared to play a rather large scale from high to low. When the music cuts out to focus one instrument it really creates a unique sound. This type of music, without the information given in the book automatically brings you back in time. I think that this song accurately displays the use of many different instruments that are not doubled. Overall, the…

America’s original art forms, was created in America during the late 18th and early 19th century. During this time, African people were forced to work in large plantations and after a hard day of labour, these people would gather together to sing and play music. By singing these songs, the children would learn more about the land and culture and also help them forget about their worries and struggles. The call and response technique was used in these songs meaning the leader would call out a…