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The Birth of American Music Timeline
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The History of American Music
James Armstrong
Bebop
(1940s - 1950s)
- Kansas City's jazz
- Often viewed as 'art music'; was not easy to listen or dance to
- Most famous bebop musicians are Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk
- Bebop failed to gain popularity due to this and timing (World War II)
- Removed Jazz and Swing from mainstream music
- The popularity of jazz and swing continued to grow
- Benny Goodman is often credited for leading some of the first racially diverse jazz bands
- Both blacks and whites played in his bands
- Goodman himself was Jewish
Rock n' Roll in Memphis
(1950s)
Swing
(1920s - 1940s)
- Combination of RnB (mostly black) and country (mostly white)
- Became very racially diverse
- Popularized by radio hosts such as Steve Allen and Ed Sullivan
- Early popular artists include Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and Bo Diddley
Jazz
- Combination of ragtime and the blues
- Quickly became popular in New Orleans
- First jazz recording by Original Dixieland Jazz Band (1917)
- First person to write jazz music in the standard notation was Jelly Roll Morton
Minstrel Acts
(1828 - 1960s)
- New Orleans was a city full of culture
- Colonist, French, Spanish, African, and Caribbean cultures
- Cultures began to combine into genres such as ragtime
New Orleans and early Jazz
1895 - 1927
- Popularized by Thomas Dartmouth Rice
- Minstrel was a series of shows that ridiculed and mocked blacks
- The purpose was to ruin black culture in America, which was growing more popular
- Instead the minstrel shows only made black culture even more popular in the US
Sugar Plantations
(1520 - 1820)
- In America, sugar was in extremely high demand, primarily for alcoholic beverages such as rum
- Slaves were transported from west Africa to South American plantations and sugar was transported to the New World
- Working conditions were hard and disease hidden
- This helped introduce Americans to the rhythms and dances of Africa
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