Does any body know any history of jazz ?

Question

I need any web sites for any info on th history of jazz

Answer 1

www.wikipedia.com

Go there and type in jazz. Or just google Jazz History. It is that simple.

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Answer 2

Here is a time lime for jazz and the botton are website on jazz.

Brief Chronology of African-American Music and Jazz


Before 1850

Folk music based on African forms.
White dance and band music.
Circa 1850

Plantation songs sung by slaves.
Minstrelsy was white music meant to copy plantation songs.
During the Civil War

Slave Songs of the United States published by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickford Ware and Lucy McKim Garrison.
Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands published by Lydia Parrish.
After the Civil War

Prison songs.
Late 1800's

Blues develops and is complete by 1910.
1890's

Ragtime develops and is the most popular music in America between 1900 and 1911.
Early 1900's

Marching band music, Ragtime and the Blues begin to be fused into early Jazz roots.
1910 - 1920

Jazz is born in New Orleans via a combination of black and creole music.
1920's

New Orleans Jazz is the thing. The Jazz Age is born.
1930's

Swing is king and this is the only time that Jazz and popular are the same thing.
1940's

Bebop is born. It is later called simply Bop.
1950's

Hard Bop or Funk and Cool Jazz take over.
1960's

Modal and Free Jazz find followers.
1970's

Jazz fuses with one of its derivatives (Rock) to form Jazz-Rock or Fusion.
1980's

Contemporary Jazz age begins.
1990's

Hip-Hop and other forms emerge. Hard Bop revival.

Answer 3

Brief Chronology of African-American Music and Jazz


Before 1850

Folk music based on African forms.
White dance and band music.
Circa 1850

Plantation songs sung by slaves.
Minstrelsy was white music meant to copy plantation songs.
During the Civil War

Slave Songs of the United States published by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickford Ware and Lucy McKim Garrison.
Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands published by Lydia Parrish.
After the Civil War

Prison songs.
Late 1800's

Blues develops and is complete by 1910.
1890's

Ragtime develops and is the most popular music in America between 1900 and 1911.
Early 1900's

Marching band music, Ragtime and the Blues begin to be fused into early Jazz roots.
1910 - 1920

Jazz is born in New Orleans via a combination of black and creole music.
1920's

New Orleans Jazz is the thing. The Jazz Age is born.
1930's

Swing is king and this is the only time that Jazz and popular are the same thing.
1940's

Bebop is born. It is later called simply Bop.
1950's

Hard Bop or Funk and Cool Jazz take over.
1960's

Modal and Free Jazz find followers.
1970's

Jazz fuses with one of its derivatives (Rock) to form Jazz-Rock or Fusion.
1980's

Contemporary Jazz age begins.
1990's

Hip-Hop and other forms emerge. Hard Bop revival.

Answer 4

There was no jazz much before 1900. Most scholars agree that jazz developed in the closing decades of the 19th and opening decades of the 20th centuries. Although the music seemed to spontaneously erupt in several locations, the undisputed center of jazz in the early period was a neighborhood in New Orleans called Storyville. From here you really need to read about it yourself. It's a fascinating journey worth the time you need to invest in order to understand this uniquely American art form. I've shared a few websites that will get you off to a fine start. After learning about jazz, you will never again look at American music or American history the same.

Answer 5

Go to this website
www.pbs.org/kenburns

Ken Burns made a lot of movies about jazz history. his website as a lot of info about the Jazz Masters lifes. It also has song samples. Hopefully That will help. Those are the videos that we watch in my american jazz class.

Answer 6

Jazz represents a merging and melding of many different peoples and their heritages. During the 1800s in America's south, music was an integral part of the life of plantation slaves of African descent. Plantation songs, spirituals, and field hollers were a part of everyday life -- to celebrate, to mourn, to entertain, to commemorate, to worship, and to accompany the drudgery of work. This music of the plantations blended with the European-American musical tradition to create the basis for blues, ragtime, and other musical forms from which jazz evolved


Jazz is rooted in the blues, the folk music of former enslaved Africans in the U.S. South and their descendants, which is influenced by West African cultural and musical traditions that evolved as black musicians migrated to the cities.

Answer 7

African Americans were responsible for the jazz era. Look up information on Harlem during the early 1900's, it was a period and setting influenced by jazz.

Answer 8

here ya go...