Historical+Influences


 * It brought out powerful musical talent. Singers and musicians played an important role in this cultural inspiration
 * Singers often worked with jazz bands or pianist. It later paved the way for boogie-woogie music which later became known as rhythm and blues.
 * Influenced by the African-American social thought and culture
 * Musicians used their culture to fight for equality and civil rights
 * In the early 1900’s it was an attractive location for immigrants
 * In 1904 middle class African Americans left the black neighborhoods for Harlem. This caused the move North for educated African Americans.
 * The migration of African Americans to the North brought them to Harlem
 * blues based a series of specific formats, such as 12-bar blues
 * jazz played in a certain key, with complex synchopation and frequent improvisation by the musicians
 * entirely based on feel and rhythm, call and response,
 * true American music
 * because of the lack of an audience, but musicians played for themselves, which begat the complexities as the musicians tried to out do the other in playful competition
 * early jazz musicians were all self-taught, but as the popularity increased, schools began teaching jazz, and many accomplished musicians began to play jazz, furthering the popularity
 * both blues and jazz have roots in slave songs and southern folk music