Jazz Age

What was the Jazz Age in America? Also known as the Roaring Twenties’, it was when American ways were beginning to modernize. Before the stock market had crashed and the Great Depression started, culture was booming in America. Dance was changing rapidly and new styles of dances were being created. Women began to wear shorter clothes, cut their hair, and some even had jobs, while the Flapper girls gave other young women an outlook of freedom. People began to go see films and movie stars became famous worldwide. During the Jazz Age, American culture was changing and Americans were becoming more finically affluent.

The Jazz Age was a period of radical behavior and care free living. This new music structure started the crazy decade that would change American life. “In the US during the 1920s, jazz was far more than a new musical style or genre”. A Focus on culture, fashion, and mostly freedom became huge. “The Jazz Age became a touchstone for a wide range of social and cultural issues.”1 Also the freedom during the period allowed for many different ethnicities, including African Americans, to gain freedom within society. This new music

The jazz is a musical expression that was created it in Africa America and also it is Americas classical music, but first it started 20th century in Africa America. When the Jazz started in the United States, it started first New Orleans, so the Jazz in that time started to become American’s popular music. According to the article Jazz, “The 1950s saw the emergence of free jazz, which explored playing without regular meter, beat and formal structures”, so the free jazz was changing during that time because it was played different (Jazz). In the jazz has faster tempos and it is playing without formal and beat. The elements of the jazz have a steady beat, fast tempo, and polyphonic texture. In addition, the part of rhythm of the jazz is that

     The music called Jazz was born sometime around 1895 in New Orleans. It combined elements of Ragtime, marching band music and Blues. What made Jazz such a different perspective of traditional music was its act of improvising. There was a widespread use of improvisation often by more than one player at a time. Songwriters would write the music down on a piece of paper, and then the Jazz musicians would try their best to play the music. Usually in a Jazz piece, musicians would use the song as a starting point to improvise around. Jazz musicians would play a familiar song to the audience, and by the time they were done with the piece they would stir up a totally different feeling away from the

There have been many influential events and time periods in history which have directly affected America today such as prohibition and “bootlegging.” The era of prohibition began on January 29th, 1920(Rebman9). Prohibition influenced many things such as the ratification of the 18th and 21st amendment. However, prohibition led to a huge increase in crime rates as well as taking a huge role in the development of NASCAR. Although, many notorious criminals came out of prohibition, by far the most famous would be Alphonse Gabriel Capone, also known as Al Capone.

When caught bootlegging liquor you would be issued a fine, this made things alright because everyone was happy, the laws were so hard to enforce that the government was just happy collecting fine money and the bootleggers were happy cause it was a small price to pay for the amount of money they were making. The most ironic thing about prohibition is that it is the major bases for what we call organized crime.

Right after WWI the economy wasn’t doing so well and all of the youth that had gone to war and even those that hadn’t were looking for something new to do. Musicians decided they had to keep up with popular fads so they started making a new sounding music that youth and young adults could dance to and it was called jazz.

These criminals showed up to supply the many consumer who still wanted alcohol giving organized crime the opportunity to make huge profits. While all the bars and liquor stores were closed speakeasies, which sold alcohol, were everywhere during the prohibition era usually hidden within another establishment such as a hotel or restaurant. These new powerful mobsters were known to bribe government officials and when that didn’t work they used extreme violence. The members of law enforcement that remained honest would’ve been left helpless to stop these people.

Some states such as New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts did not enforce the prohibition act of 1920, causing funds to drop to the states for law enforcement agencies(GILDER). The prohibition Caused the rise of organized crime in the United States. Prohibition stated the creation of toxic moonshine, bootleggers used lead coils and lead soldering putting lead in moonshine(PEARSON). Others put additives in moonshine such as iodine and creosote causing blindness or even death. Over 12,000 people died from toxic moonshine Al Capone made over 60 million dollars from Bootlegging that’s 60 million dollars other US citizens lose. Many Bootleggers used Industrial alcohol in Products. The Federal Government started putting more poisonous chemicals in industrial alcohol causing over 10,000 deaths from consumption(PEARSON).Overall there are more negative effects of prohibition in the 1920’s. From poisonous alcohol to enforcement budget cuts it is all negative and is why prohibition failed. Even though prohibition stopped some americans from drinking alcohol it created a new door for new kinds of alcohol to come in to the US. Prohibition is bad in my opinion because it caused unnecessary deaths in america. That sets a final ending to the 18th Amendment in the 1920’s and forever

Back then, the Prohibition itself created criminals, is partially to blame for the Mafia, and dangerous alternatives ensued from it. Nowadays, it is not much different: criminals are made, the Cartel has continued to grow, and other dangerous alternative recreation drugs and drinks have been results as well. The Prohibition did not just generate negative outcomes though. In the thirteen year

The Jazz Age was a time period, where jazz dances, and music was popular. The most popular time period was the 1920’s, and the 1930’s. Jazz Age started in 1918, in the United States. It expanded in the 1920’s, African American people were brought to the white middle class. They all started to listen and dance to the Jazz Age music.

Jazz made an early deputation starting in the early twentieth century. Many popular musicians today, even some less known ones base their style of Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Bing Crosby. These four men changed the way people look at jazz today. In today’s era, it is impossible for one not to find a jazz club. There are live jazz concerts, watching online, small local bars that perform jazz music and big venues like Lincoln Center that have jazz performances. Jazz evolved into the everyday lives of certain people.

The Jazz Age was one of the many highlights of the 1920’s before the stock market crash that triggered the start of the Great Depression in 1929. Because of the distress that the American soldiers faced during World War 1, many of them returned questioning the true meaning of life. Their solution was to recklessly enjoy their lives since you only live once. A completely new culture bloomed during the decade through it’s new music, crazy dancing and brand new atmosphere. While the country seemed to be rather optimistic as a whole during the 1920’s, this decade actually had quite a few issues. Although the United States demonstrated confidence throughout the decade, there were many situations in which the country experienced disillusionment

Jazz has always been changing throughout the years. Starting from the work songs, new styles of jazz were interchanging the previous ones, but they never replaced them. That's the beauty of jazz. It is very (multi-faced, polyhedral, versatile) music genre. Songs from different time slots (periods) echoing between each

Jazz as we know it to be originated from Africa brought over by black slaves who were treated with great cruelty and used music as a method of consolidation. The music that was brought over with the slaves inevitably ended up mixing with the popular American music of the time creating many different genres including blues, ragtime and eventually jazz. Slaves would have been introduced to typical American music by their masters which usually consisted of music such as Gospel music which would have been very popular at the time [1]. This type of music and the traditional tribal music that the slaves brought with them that makes use of the polyrhythms from the multiple drum beats and chants come together to create a type of music which would have been like nothing ever heard before at the time.