The Jazz Age : Roaring 1920's

By: Quatey Brown, Kayla Pressley, and Justin Duncan

The jazz movement took place during the 1920's from which jazz music and dance emerged. Jazz was born in New Orleans. It originally started as a mixture of blues and marching band music and was played by African Americans and creoles on old U.S. army instruments. The tewenties, was known as the jazz age. During this time, expirements and new jazz styles were discovered. Jazz bands started the musical revolution using for the first time, the saxaphone. It is used to provoke dancing wich many people were shocked by the loud and extroidanary sound of the saxaphone.Even though the jazz movement was taken over by the middle class white population, It fadliated the mesh of African American tradition and ideas with the white middle class society. In urban areas, African American jazz was played on the radio more often than the suburbs.

The women during the 1920's were suffering at its peak. The flapper women began to make a statement within society, and the jazz age was not immune to these new ideals. Ideals like equality and free sexuality were very popular during this time and women seem to capitalize during this peroid. Famous women musicians during the jazz age included Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Janis Joplin. Bessie Smith gained attention because she was not only a great singer, but also an Affrican American woman. The era ended in 1930's with the begining of the Great Depression, but it has lived on in American pop culture today.

Louis Armstrong and The Hot Five- West End Blues:
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