(Historical Terms) the jazz age (often capitals) (esp in the US) the period between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Depression during which jazz became popular [C20: popularized by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who called a collection of his short stories Tales of the Jazz Age ...
The roots of jazz The folk songs and plantation dance music of black Americans contributed much to early jazz. These forms of music occurred throughout the Southern United States during the late 1800's. Ragtime, a musical style that influenced early jazz, emerged from the St. Louis, Mo., ...
A.The technological innovation of sound film during the 1920’s. B.The invention of a method for depvering movies to people’s home. C.The development of a technology for translating films into other languages. D.The technological improvements allowing clearer images in films. 问题2选项 A.To...
Chicago was home primarily for New Orleans traditional music during the 1920's. From this New Orleans style came four major types of jazz: Boogie-Woogie, Chicago Jazz, Urban Blues, and Society Dance Bands. Because of the ever-growing popularity of nightclubs during Prohibition, these styles of...
During the late 1920's and early 1930's, jazz advanced from relatively simple music played by performers who often could not read music to a more complex and sophisticated form. Among the musicians who brought about this change were saxophonists Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, and Johnny Hodges;...
syncopationand swing, often considered essential and unique to jazz, are in fact lacking in much authentic jazz, whether of the1920sor of later decades. Again, the long-held notion that swing could not occur without syncopation was roundly disproved when trumpetersLouis Armstrongand Bunny Berigan...
1920s Jazz: New Orleans Traditional New Orleans jazz has always been a mystery to some and a revelation to others. Even at home, the range of opinion has traditionally fluctuated wildly from animosity to diffidence to chauvinism. Thus, on June 20, 1918 the New Orleans Times-Picayune ran an...
During te 1920s, Lous Armtrong be-came famous for his performances on the trumper and jazz cormer. Later his unusual voicebecamejut as famous.People often calthe 1920s the Jazz Age, or the Golden Age of American Jazz. Youngpeople from the Middle Wet created a new form of music during ...
Jazz - Field Hollers, Funeral Processions: Jazz, as it finally evolved as a distinct musical style and language, comprised what Max Harrison calls, in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, a “composite matrix” made up of a host of diverse ve
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