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Jazz Meets White America

Jazz Meets White America . And is Criminalized. Jazz Moves from New Orleans. 1920’s and early 30’s Jazz travels on the riverboats up the Mississippi into major centres in the northern part of the country -the shipping industry also brings jazz New York City. Why all the trouble?.

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Jazz Meets White America

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  1. Jazz Meets White America • And is Criminalized

  2. Jazz Moves from New Orleans • 1920’s and early 30’s • Jazz travels on the riverboats up the Mississippi into major centres in the northern part of the country • -the shipping industry also brings jazz New York City

  3. Why all the trouble? • Prohibition

  4. Alcohol banned in the USA • Alcohol was made illegal, but it didn’t make it disappear. • Alcohol is a party favourite for the youth

  5. So if there was still a demand for alcohol, who would supply it? • Organized Crime • This is how Mobsters, like Al Capone became so powerful

  6. Recognize this name?

  7. If you wanted a drink, where would you get one? • “Speakeasies” illegal clubs. Being caught in one was against the law

  8. Remember this episode…

  9. Where do musicians find work? • Music is another party favourite for the youth. • Youth are always trying new music first and the new arrival of jazz to the Northern USA and Canada make it the popular music among the youth • Musicians are hired to play at “speakeasies” so young people could drink and dance the night away. They were working for criminals. • -jazz becomes associated with crime much like “gangstarap”of today. • Jelly Roll Morton for example…

  10. It gets worse… • -jazz also creates new forms of dancing involving hip swinging, touching and sweating and is viewed as “indecent”

  11. Provocative

  12. And “from the jungle”

  13. Problem #3 • Racism • -racism by adult society drives much of the dissention toward this new music and leads to the jazz being outlawed, musicians being arrested, and record burning.

  14. White musicians begin to find inspiration in this new black music • BixBeiderbeck, • George Gershwin

  15. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band • Recorded the first jazz record ever • “The DarktownStrutters Ball”

  16. Paul Whiteman

  17. Meanwhile • Black musicians struggle to get record deals • Fletcher Henderson was a New York Rival to Whiteman and had a far superior band

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