JAZZ ROOTS AND ROUTES:

1920 AND BEYOND

THE BEGINNING OF JAZZ

New Orleans Jazz in the 1920s was played anywhere. -Street corners -Clubs -Restaurants

Why was Jazz a controversial piece of art?

Jazz allowed people to express themselves through their ability to create their own music.

Famous Musicians in 1920s Jazz in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS CHICAGO

These night clubs were full of money and wealthy white men.

Most important Jazz band in Chicago at this time.

CHICAGO NEW YORK

New York was a booming city.

Jazz music was influenced by the current ragtime music being played In New York at this time.

THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

The Harlem Renaissance

Langston HughesAnd the Blues

Millions of African American left the South for cities in the North,

spreading styles of Blues music

“ Race CapitalOf the World”

“Negro’s Zion”

W.E.B Du Bois founded The

Crisis, the house

magazine for civil rights

organization NAACP

“85% of NAACP’s budget came from African

American themselves”

Discovery of Langston Hughes

The Crisis first published the work of Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, which became his signature poem.

“My soul has grown deep like the rivers”-Langston Hughes

“The blues are folk-songs born out of heartache. They are songs of the black South…out of black, beaten, but unbeatable throats, from the strings of pawn-shop guitars, and the chords of pianos with no ivory on the keys.”

-Langston Hughes

The Blues in the form of poetry has never been attempted before, but Hughes attempted it and it has remained popular ever since.

Songs called the Blues

http://brbl-archive.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/langstonhughes/video2.html

Listen here blues poem by Langston Hughes