The Influence Of Jazz In The 1920's

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In the 1920s the United states economy boomed which caused many new inventions and pastimes. One of which was jazz, a new type of music that would change how music was created today. Jazz was different than any music to come out at its time. For that reason an abundance of adults saw it as a sinful culture, whereas the younger generation found it to be alive and passionate. With the difference between the two the musicians would have to go through many hardships to get their sound out into the world. Thier music was not just lyrics to a song, jazz has the emotion of the performer into every verse. Jazz is a culture that expresses the hardships, the mood of the performer, and has changed the way of music.
Jazz was born in the Harlem Renaissance which was the social, cultural, and artistic boom of the United States that started in the middle of World War I to the middle of the 1930s. The Harlem Renaissance was a spectacle to see, it's where many things including jazz were created. Harlem, the city in which
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Many felt that jazz was created in the 1920s but this statement is not correct ¨Jazz wasn't born on a particular day, it was created over a period of time. It wasn't just one person or one race that was responsible for creating it. It was a meeting, and mixing, of the essences and emotions of many people, of many cultures.¨ The artists of jazz had to undergo torment and humiliation when they went to perform. Jazz was seen as immoral and therefore if anyone was caught playing or with it they were often punished. Jazz challenged the traditional ways and came up with new ones. And for that reason is why the music we have now is the way it is. How the performer felt was how the music was played. Jazz changed how music would be written, sung, and performed in the future. Jazz is a culture that expresses the hardships, the mood of the performer, and has changed the way of