Review up till now WW1 Economic downturn Fear of radicalism Immigrants might be the problem… Let’s go back to the good ole days… Q: Are the old days really better? The Jazz Age (1920s) The Long Nineteenth Century Historians always ignore what everyone else is doing 1789 to 1918-???? Industrial Revolution French Revolution Victorian Ideas and Imperialism Bigger push for imperialism Ends in 1918- why? WW1 is over, Russian Revolution taking place What replaces it? “The Modern Age”
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Ethnographic CD Review: Ensemble La Roue Fleurie – Gypsy Guitars The Music of the Gypsies The Gypsies or the Romani people are an ethnic group now living predominantly in Europe. They are believed to have migrated from an Indian Subcontinent some 1000 years ago due to persecutions and their status on the Indian caste system. It wasn’t until around 1856 that the gypsies were freed as slaves in Walachia and Moldavia, which are now part of Romania. In Western Europe, hanging, flogging, and branding
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THE ROARING TWENTIES AN AGE OF JAZZ By: Vinson Gill Instructor: Dr. C.A. deGregory “The Golden Twenties or the Roaring Twenties as the 1920’s has been known to be called; when everybody seemed to have had money to party. The nightmare of the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 was inconceivable right up until it happened. While looking backward in time, when we hear “The Roaring Twenties” we tend to think almost automatically: mobsters, flappers, the Charleston (dance), a nightlife that seemingly
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was commentary from Thomas himself or one of the many quotes sprinkled within. This minor inconvenience was nothing though, compared to the difficulty found in collecting all the info presented at any given time throughout the book. As a newcomer to jazz music, someone who knows nothing about the history or key figures in the genre at all, a great challenge was presented
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Lim Jimmy Lopez Ryu Masuda Michael Ta American Literature Period 2 May 13, 2014 The Jazz Age As the 19th century came to an end, the start of a meaningless war triggered an era known as The Great Jazz Age. The year was 1914, as the world came together and fought in a useless war. The naive Americans partied as news spread that the war had ended. By 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the term, The Jazz age when he published his successful book, This side of Paradise. This era was sparked
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sparked a grave controversy, with many viewing the appeal of jazz as either an annoyance or a threat. b. Should the testament to the United States’ prosperity in the Roaring Twenties about jazz’s growing popularity be viewed as an annoyance or threat? c. Jazz’s growing popularity in the United States in a time known as the Roaring Twenties, was a dramatic turning point in the American life. The growing of this musical industry meant jazz would be thrived in adversity and come to symbolize a certain
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In the era of the 1920s, they weren't listening to Hip-Hop and dancing Dubstep, like you might be today, but the 1920s had its own music and dance revolution. For the first time, dancers were closer together, some were even touching, and the music was faster, more soulful, and louder than ever before. In spite of the horrors that the nation lived during this time of the Great War, the dancers took to the ground great movements in styles like the Shimmy, the Charleston, the Foxtrot, the Tango and
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Programming for Festival 2012 Programming Webinar Outline • • • • • • Festival 2012 Overview Preparing for tech and concert blocks Programming tips Concert hall diagrams and tech Chorus collaborations & additional performances Entering program info & recordings to web system Submit your questions via web panel and mute your phone or microphone. GALA Festival 2012 Webinar Introductions Jane Ramseyer Miller, Artistic Director-in-Residence ADR@galachoruses.org Robin Godfrey, General Manager
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many blacks did want expressed in the media. E Jazz clubs were one of the first places where blacks and whites met on level ground. Both were there for the similar interest of jazz music and they mixed cultures with their whiskey and in between notes of a violently purple saxophone player they traded names and polite conversation. After a long time and realizing that many of the black men were just like the white men that populated the jazz clubs equality seemed almost obvious. They also learned
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In the 1923 poem, “Jazzonia”, Langston Hughes sets the poem, “In a Harlem nightclub” (1140) , and is describing the jazz players inside it. Three years later, in “Lenox avenue: midnight”, Hughes continues to write about his passion for jazz clubs. He compares jazz music to the rhythm of life. I completely know what he means when he compares the streets to a jazz rhythm. A jazz rhythm has no consistent beat, its very wild, just like the streets Hughes lives on. Nowadays rappers are always rapping
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