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In this book Robert Crunden puts the jazz back in Jazz Age Jazz was Americas greatest contribution to the Modernist movement yet it is much overlooked When we hear the term Jazz Age we conjure the ghosts of Fitzgerald Hemingway and Eliot not of Jelly Roll Morton Louis Armstrong Ethel Waters George Gershwin and Duke Ellington To correct this imbalance Crunden reintroduces us to these musical luminaries who gave the era its name while tracing the early history of jazz from New Orleans to Chicago to New YorkWhile Crunden emphasizes music over literature and the visual arts he never fails to trace the complex crosscurrents of literature that passed between jazz musicians and their Lost Generation peers a veritable pageant of the glittering personalities of the dayJames Joyce Alfred Stieglitz Georgia OKeeffe Paul Strand John Dos Passos Langston Hughes Gertrude Stein. Schools Resource. What is Carnival?. In pre-Christian times, there were holidays which resemble modern day Carnivals.. In Ancient Greece, a large religious festival which included dancing, singing and a masked procession was held in honour of Dionysus, God of wine and agriculture.. realism.. . Arguably . the most paradigmatic motive of modernism is the rejection of . tradition and . its reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody in new . forms.. . Modernism . Reading Contemporary Fiction. Lecture Week Seven. Structure of the lecture. Realism, a brief recap.. Modernism. Modernist . Fiction. Post-Structuralism and Post-Modernism. A Post-Modern text: 500 Days of Summer. Jazz. Typical Instruments. Vocals. Piano. Banjo. Guitar. Double bass. Trumpet. Trombone. Saxophone. Tuba. Clarinet. Flute. Bass guitar. Drum kit. Vibraphone. Characteristics of Jazz. Because it spans music from over 100 years now, jazz can be very difficult to define. N5/6 Music. Concepts this week. National 3. Blues, Jazz, Improvisation, Accent, on the beat, off the beat. National 4. Ragtime, Swing, Scat singing, Syncopation. National 5. Walking Bass. Higher. Soul Music, Jazz Funk. Movements in Literature and Art. Modernism in Literature. Post WWI, pre WWII. Nontraditional syntax and forms. Accessible to everyone, not just academics. Pessimistic picture of a culture in chaos. Question moral and philosophical meanings. The Birth of Jazz. -The roots of jazz in and around New Orleans extend back into the second half of the 19. th. century (maybe even earlier).. -Brass bands, made up of African Americans, played there during the War of 1812.. unresolved. different meanings across fields. Politics and Econ. Arts. Religion – it is heresy (original use). Modernism. ’. s Materials. the everyday – boring, mundane. day novels – . Ulysses. Paul Whiteman. Possibly the first pop superstar, called the “King of Jazz” during the 1920s. Symphonic jazz – Whiteman attempted to “make a lady out of jazz”. Wanted to hire “some jazz musicians, preferably black” in 1926. Modernism. More and more . artists & composers rejected the classical traditions . of art & music and . strove towards originality. . (why?). Avoiding classical harmony and forms . at all cost, they . African Diaspora especially from West Africa. 1920s early jazz . 1930s Big Band and Swing. 1940s Country Blues and Electric Blues. 1950s Rock N Roll highly influenced by genres above. Now… 1960s comes into play Rhythm & Blues and Soul Music. Seeing Red. vAmerica turned in after the war again- disillusion. vFear of Communist Russia. vSmall party in US. vBelieved takeover in US. v. Palmer Raids- 1919-1920- Attorney Gen. A. Mitchell Palmer. Lesson 7 . Piano Man Jazz Intro and Accidentals In this lesson, you will review some piano staff basics and discover how accidentals (sharps, flats, and naturals) affect notes while you learn the Piano Man Jazz Intro. L. istening . in George Elliott Clarke’s. . Blue. Black Music as Survival. I have sometimes thought the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of.