ORAL TRADITION (AtoZ Challenge 2016 – Jazz Age Jazz) Oral tradition encompasses African American culture as a whole. It influences Afro-American speech, folklore, literature and music
NEW ORLEANS (Jazz Age Jazz) it is generally accepted that jazz arose in and around New Orleans at the turn of the XX century. It was a melting pot of history and experiences
MUSICIANERS V/ JAZZMEN (Jazz Age Jazz) In 1920s New Orleans some musicians could read music. they were called ‘musicianers’. Some other didn’t, so they ‘ragged’ or ‘jazzed’ music, and they were of course called jazzmen
Lindy Hop (AtoZ Challenge 2016 – Jazz Age Jazz) Lindy Hop is a street dance and probably originated in Harlem in the 1920s. The Savoy Ballroom launched this dance on a national scale.
Kansas City (AtoZ Challenge 2016 – Jazz Age Jazz) Starting in the 1920s, Kansas City, Missouri, transformed itself in the Mecca for young jazz musicians. Jam sessions supposedly emerged in Kansas City
Jazz Controversy (Jazz Age Jazz Series) When Jazz first became popular in the 1920s, a fierce debated broke out about whether it was even music. It broke with everything, classic canon of music, ways to play, instruments used. And of course, it was indecent.
IMPROVISATION (Jazz Age Jazz – AtoZ Challenge 2016) If it isn’t improvised, it isn’t jazz. That’s about as much as it is certain about jazz
HONKY TONK (Jazz Age Jazz – AtoZChallenge 2016) Born in shady places, considered for a long time a lesser kind of music, honky tonk piano slowly became its own recognised genre
GREAT MIGRATION (Jazz Age Jazz – AtoZ Challenge 2016) Jazzmen came North the same way and for the same reasons multitudes of African Americans did during the Great MIgration: seeking job and freedom
FILMS (Jazz Age Jazz – AtoZ Challenge 2016) Jazz and films followed the same path. They both first appeared at the turn of the XX century. They both found it hard to be accepted as legitimate art
EMOTIONS (Jazz Age Jazz – AtoZ Challenge 2016) In the 1920s, jazz’s ability to work with emotions was one of the reasons why it was so strongly opposed by the more traditional section of society.
DIEXILAND (Jazz Age Jazz – AtoZ Challenge 2016) Dixieland was the most popular jazz style in the 1920s. Its defining sound is the “collective improvisation”: performers and audience create music together