How History Has Affected Music During The 1920's

Music is a story of somebodies feelings and thought put into note form and all put to a central beat. Harry Styles said that, “There is a song for every emotion.” This is due to the amount of times of happiness and sadness through history. The technology available at the time is the translator that changes emotions into something that is audible. History has affected music in ways such as the mood of the area at the time of the creation, the amount advances in technology at the time, and popular trends at the time. The mood of a place at a certain time in history has dictated the style of music since the first creating of it. A prime example of this was in America during the 1920’s. The great depression had hit and the economy had hit an all time low. Life had become extremely hard for the middle class and lower class citizens. It was a time of sorrow and depression. This same time was also the rise in popularity for Jazz and the Blues. Many of these songs were slow but slightly peppy. Many of the songs had lyrics that talked about the shortness of money or any other problems such as lost love.

Different devices can change music immensely. For example, many people think of an instrument as something that involves keys, valves, or strings, but the truth is that something as simple as your voice or as complicated as a computer can create music just the same as a traditional instrument. Before fancy sound boards and computers were around to manipulate music into almost unnatural perfection, there was just a person with their instrument and an audience. If somebody messed up then it would be heard, but the world wouldn’t end. Now it is completely absurd to hear music that is not completely perfect thanks to the use of sound editing software, autotune, and lip