Music has changed and developed drastically over the past two centuries. Beginning as a representation of the upper class, and shifting to everyday entertainment for all ranks. Through this change, it affected urbanization and the culture of America as a whole. Popular forms of music such as jazz and ragtime spread across popular cities, causing a spread in culture and formed connections, allowing rural areas of America to join the urbanized world.
During the 19th century, music was used mainly as a form of entertainment among the genteel class in America. It showed a pubic demonstration o their elite stature over the lower classes. Over time it was realized that music could be used as a way to promote social reform with the poorer classes, and music was completely transformed. Developing from an act of elite priority into a tool to promote social, political, and economic reform, which in turn, reflected the ideals of the century of the Progressive Movement. This time period of the early 1900s consisted of focus towards American evolution and advancement. During this period, people believed that the government should be actively involved in this reform. The school systems were a part of this demand, which eventually led to a new form of music aid in education. The Progressive era encourage the widespread of music to rural ares with this inclusion into schools.
One of the more popular forms of music which appeared during the late 19th century was ragtime. Ragtime by definition is "a genre of musical composition or the piano". It was inevitably a form o music that acted as a base or other music genres, such as jazz, to then branch off and add on to it to created a more popular and established composure. During this period of the late 19th century, ragtime was popularized in Missouri by a teenage musician by the name of Tom Turpin, who created a defining piano piece titled "Harlem Rag". Over time, ragtime was slowly over taken by jazz which fed off of the ragtime genre. Ragtime still had its own unique style, but jazz branched off into a more popular genre of music.
azz was one of the biggest booms in the music industry during the early 1900s. It all started in New Orleans, otherwise known as "The Cradle of azz" at the time. New Orleans played the biggest part in impacting the development and the culture of jazz in America. As the popularity of jazz grew, it spread away from New Orleans across America to bigger and more populated cities. This spread across different places and cultures slowly morphed jazz with new techniques and and styles added to it. A popular example of this included African-American musical culture as blues songs and piano techniques. As the industrial revolution began, music and entertainment became a mass "industry" and attracted audiences and performers to populated cities and shows. The development of travel bands also created a new form of entertainment that was able to come to populated cities and audiences.
One of the greatest and most influential musical figures of the 1900s was Louis Armstrong. He was born and raised in New Orleans, the heart of jazz in America at the time, and had a natural talent for music. Growing up he was a part of a barbershop quartet, which helped Armstrong developed his ear for rhythm and musical tone. His ability to improvise and create new music with his trumpet caused a roar over audiences and built his fame. This ability also helped transform the more stiff tune of ragtime into the relaxed rhythm of jazz. His popularity transferred through the younger jazz musicians and created an entire branch of music that developed throughout history.
During this era, American music and culture was forever changed. Transforming and developing from a secluded form of entertainment and demonstration of rank, to a public and widespread tool used for different aspects of life. The late 19th century and early 20th century was a time of changed and advancement with bled into the entertainment industry. Without the help of reforms and the great musicians of the time, entertainment as we know it toady could have been completely transformed.
Work Cited
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A) I didn't know the people who innovated new kinds of music in this era like Louis Armstrong
ReplyDeleteB) WHy did these new kinds of music start in the places they did? WHy did jazz come out of New Orleans?
C)Yes Garrett talks about the impact of these new kinds of music in the widespread american population
1) I didn't know that ragtime served as a basis for jazz music. I thought jazz emerged as a new type without influences of music beforehand.
ReplyDelete2) I would like to know more about the different types of jazz because I am very interested in piano music!!
3) I think this article is analytical because it combines facts about music and original commentary in an organized way.
A. I had no idea that ragtime was a precursor to jazz.
ReplyDeleteB. I would like to learn more about how jazz is different from ragtime and how it branched off without bringing regular ragtime with it.
C. Yes because it talks about how music influenced societies to urbanize and how urbanization helped spread music to everyone.
A. I did not know that ragtime was even a genre of music and that it led to jazz
ReplyDeleteB. I would like to learn more on how this music was produced and how different people became popular producing this music
C. Yes it was analytical because it talked about how urbanization affected the production of music and the genres people listened to