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Jazz Age 1920s

The 1920s is often referred to as the Jazz Age because Jazz music gained a tremendous popularity during that time.

How did Jazz and Blues become so popular nationwide?

Advertising became big business in the 1920s

Commercial messages appeared in magazines and newspapers, on billboard, and radio.

Radio (Commercial) - Radio grew in popularity during the early 1920s - During the late 1920s, America across the country was able to laugh at the same jokes and listen to the same music and the same ads. - Stations broadcast music. - Soon radio stations started to make money by selling advertisements from companies. - Radio stations began to advertise companies’ products by advertisements from companies. During the late 1920s, America across the country was able to laugh at the same jokes and listen to the same music and the same ads.

Musicians (Peripatetic Jazz Band) and Jazz clubs A renown jazz trumpeter, Louis Armstrong toured throughout the United States and Europe, performing such classics as “When the Saints Go Marching In,” “Savoy Blues,” and “Hotter Than That”.

Musicians of different backgrounds began incorporating jazz elements into their music as jazz became more popular.

Uniqueness of Jazz & Blues (another form of African American music) (addicting) (innovative form of music) Jazz incorporates West African Rhythms, elements of African American spirituals, and ragtime as well as European harmonies. Blue’s heartfelt lyrics

Jason:

"Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that most often follows a twelve-bar structure. It emerged in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed English and Scots-Irish narrative ballads. The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of African influence. The blues influenced later American and Western popular music, as it became part of the genres of jazz, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, hip-hop, and pop songs."

Jazz music was very much a continuation of blues music, except that it took advantage of the instruments of the marching band.

The jazz musician was basically "singing" using the instrument. Unlike the European instrument players who are trained to read the notes and musical expressions, jazz musicians are trained to play the instruments to sound as emotional as as the human voice of the blues.

Jazz as a separate genre of music was born at the intersection of collective improvisation and heavy syncopation.