Do You Know How Jazz Did Evolve?
Jazz is one genre which has changed with the times.
It has evolved from being a haphazard form to a well definable delicate category of music.
It has originally come out in the world war times when life was really a confusion of sorts with all the bombing going around and not knowing whether you will live or die.
From then till this day jazz has truly come out a long way.
Not only has it changed on the way to modernity but it has also imbibed the best from most cultures that it has come across.
Is has transformed itself and is now quite different from what it used to be when it started out as a genre.
In fact it even gave birth to a number of popular genres of this day other than staying alive on its own.
Many people however do not know about the origin of this song form.
People often associate with the white Americans while it is actually the development by the African Americans who stay in America and have been shipped there as slaves during the earlier part of the seventeenth century when imperialism was rampant.
However, these people mixed up the southern blues with it to make it the first form that jazz took in those days.
However, it was what the Afro-Americans used to call "hot jazz".
But as time went on, in the very starting of the twentieth century there was a great resistance born to this form of music and therefore it had to be evolved into something else so that the music form could survive and was not wiped out exclusively.
This happened because the song form had spread very rapidly to Chicago and other parts in the north of the United States.
At these places the bands who believed in this type of singing used to perform but keeping society at bay, in the very margins of the same.
In fact during the Prohibition that was rampant in the 1920's jazz started to become a form of protest really because the lyrics of the music became very decadent and free.
Illegal words, and phrases were used and often this music was played in the red light areas of the country.
Therefore jazz came to be related with the decadence that was going around in this era.
However, nothing could stop this music although the depression that followed in the country did effect the then popular form of jazz, the Dixieland jazz, the music of decadence.
However, the depression could not kill off jazz because as soon as everything returned to normal jazz started becoming very popular amongst the young teenagers and the college goers.
Since it was one music which touched the youth therefore it was very difficult to oust the genre entirely.
Bands began to form and the music started being played all over college campuses.
The American youth spread their arms wide open for jazz and accepted this music genre as their own.
In a certain way it was a big victory for the dark skinned people living in the country because the song form was ultimately that of the Africans who had originally come to America as slaves, wonders from the East.
So, the acceptance of jazz for its musical quality by the young white Americans was really an adjustment that the old whites had to make and therefore jazz found its position in the white American culture.
It has evolved from being a haphazard form to a well definable delicate category of music.
It has originally come out in the world war times when life was really a confusion of sorts with all the bombing going around and not knowing whether you will live or die.
From then till this day jazz has truly come out a long way.
Not only has it changed on the way to modernity but it has also imbibed the best from most cultures that it has come across.
Is has transformed itself and is now quite different from what it used to be when it started out as a genre.
In fact it even gave birth to a number of popular genres of this day other than staying alive on its own.
Many people however do not know about the origin of this song form.
People often associate with the white Americans while it is actually the development by the African Americans who stay in America and have been shipped there as slaves during the earlier part of the seventeenth century when imperialism was rampant.
However, these people mixed up the southern blues with it to make it the first form that jazz took in those days.
However, it was what the Afro-Americans used to call "hot jazz".
But as time went on, in the very starting of the twentieth century there was a great resistance born to this form of music and therefore it had to be evolved into something else so that the music form could survive and was not wiped out exclusively.
This happened because the song form had spread very rapidly to Chicago and other parts in the north of the United States.
At these places the bands who believed in this type of singing used to perform but keeping society at bay, in the very margins of the same.
In fact during the Prohibition that was rampant in the 1920's jazz started to become a form of protest really because the lyrics of the music became very decadent and free.
Illegal words, and phrases were used and often this music was played in the red light areas of the country.
Therefore jazz came to be related with the decadence that was going around in this era.
However, nothing could stop this music although the depression that followed in the country did effect the then popular form of jazz, the Dixieland jazz, the music of decadence.
However, the depression could not kill off jazz because as soon as everything returned to normal jazz started becoming very popular amongst the young teenagers and the college goers.
Since it was one music which touched the youth therefore it was very difficult to oust the genre entirely.
Bands began to form and the music started being played all over college campuses.
The American youth spread their arms wide open for jazz and accepted this music genre as their own.
In a certain way it was a big victory for the dark skinned people living in the country because the song form was ultimately that of the Africans who had originally come to America as slaves, wonders from the East.
So, the acceptance of jazz for its musical quality by the young white Americans was really an adjustment that the old whites had to make and therefore jazz found its position in the white American culture.
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