http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRveIIe4uAs&feature=related

Before 1920's:   (Slow Music)• Opera• Calssical   During the 1920's:    (Faster Paced)• Fun• Free• Upbeat

Origin:• African American's• New Orleans

  How it spread:• North• Africa Americans migrated

there during WWI 

Upbeat music during oppression

• African Americans were considered "below"

 To avoid African Americans:• Whites Bands imitated style• "Race Music" formed

• Luis Armstrong • Jelly Roll Morton

 • Joe "King" Oliver

 • Edward "Kid" Ory

Origin: • Enslaved African Americans

 •  Feild Chants & Work Songs

What they sung about?• Joys and Sorrows

• Bessie Smith • Gertrude "Ma" Rainey

 • Lucille Hegamin

 • Ethel Waters

Famous "Blues" Musicians

Slow dancing                Fast paced   The Charleston:    Didn't require partner  Older citizens considered it:• Immoral• Shocking• Scandalous

Created: • A stronger and happier

social environment.• Entertainment

  To Come Out of the 20's Music• Radios became very

popular to the American middle class.

Effected:• The way whites and blacks spent their free

time• How people socialized with others

 Segregation and racism still exists.

           Ex: "race music"

http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/qt/charleston.htm

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/studproj/is3099/jazzcult/20sjazz/

http://www.jazzstandards.com/history/history-2.htm

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