Jazz

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Jazz
The jazz we know of today wasn't recognized as its own genre until the 20th century. Before, jazz was considered to be music for black people and it was rarely appreciated for the ordinary white man. During the 18th century when African slaves were shipped to America where the music was later on influenced by the western European music. The rhythm inherited from Africa and a lot of the melody came from western European music such as folk songs and church hymns. So the jazz genre is inherited from the folk music from Europe and also some African music. At the time only the “Negroes” were listening to their music and the white man let the “Negroes” play the black music to calm down the slaves.
Later on, when the black people started to have some civil rights, jazz bands were starting to merge and the first bands were created around in New Orleans at the early 20th century. The bands included instruments as trumpets, clarinets, trombones, tubas, banjos and drums. Jazz started to grow popular and a string bass or a piano was also found in the new bands. As the jazz grew more popular, it also started to appear new styles of jazz and the “swing” jazz were made. In the original jazz, there were only a few instruments played at the same time. But in the new jazz there were lots of instruments playing at the same time creating a more organized feeling. The “swing” jazz was way more popular and it was common to dance to swing jazz. The swing jazz grew popular in the 30's after the wall street crash and depression roamed in America. Since the swing jazz were so easy to dance to, people started to cheer themselves up with dancing. A few more different sorts of jazz have developed throughout the years and left us with the jazz we got toda...

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... today and the fast food that is served in America. However, I know that it ain’t like that and that the united states is quite similar to Sweden.

Markus Berthilsson Na1D

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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/ - They did advertise a little bit but the information that the link gave me was very straight forward and other sources had similar information as this did. No one could edit the articles and it was very objective. http://library.thinkquest.org/18602/historystart.html - A nice source which did not advertise anything or ask me to donate, i think the source was created for educational use. http://www.ne.se/ - The articles in Ne.se are always checked by professors before they’re uploaded to public people. http://www.usa.gov/ - A source a lot more objective than I thought it would be, gave me a nice piece of information which was similar to other sources.

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