Jazz 1(Early Jazz to Swing)

“The Pearl”
 

Stylistic Elements
  1. Jazz was created around the year 1895 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The first forms of jazz resulted from blending blues, spirituals, marches and popular tunes.
  2. The three main styles of Early Jazz were:
    a. Blues – Mostly a vocal style influenced by the hard life of southern slaves
    b. Ragtime – A piano style in a two beat feel with limited improvisation.
    c. Dixieland – Developed out of the military bands of the Civil War. This music was the center of entertainment in the life of     from funerals to political rallies.
  3. The influence of Jazz traveled North to Chicago by way of the Mississippi riverboats.
  4. Jazz of the World War II era was known as the Swing Era with “Big Bands” of 14 musicians or more to entertain at dance halls with hundreds of “Lindy” dancing fans.
  5. Many Songs of the Swing era had lyrics about love and dancing the night away.
 

Historical Events during this period

  1. In 1944, Irene Morgan refused to give up her seat to a white couple and was arrested, ten years before Rosa Parks.
  2. In 1981, Jewel Plummer Cobb became the first black president of California State University.
  3. In 1928, Home to Harlem was the first Best-Selling novel of a black novelist.
  4. In 1932, Elijah Muhammad establishes the Nation of Islam’s Temple Number Two.
  5. In 1932, Garrett A. Morgan patented the first automatic three-way traffic light
  6. In 1915, Frederick D. Patterson was the first black to manufacture cars.
  7. In 1938, Crystal Dedra Bird Fauset was the first black woman elected to a state legislature in the United States (PA)
  8. In 1933, Oliver Harrington created the first satirical cartoons on black American life.
  9. In 1921, Lillian Harding joins the King Oliver Creole band .
  10. In 1936, Jesse Owens won four gold medals and set three world records at the Olympic Games held in Munich, Germany.

Musicians
Scott Joplin Louis Armstrong Edward "Duke" Ellington Billie Holiday
 

Call Charts
Maple Leaf Rag Do You Know What It
Means to Miss New Orleans		 Take the "A" Train Strange Fruit
 

Unit Vocabulary

 

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