Ange Rapa

Class 4

The Jazz Age

Class

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Program

Video Reference

Topic

Beginnings

The Ragtime Era

The Jazz Age Begins

The Jazz Age

Prelude to Swing

The Swing Era Begins

The Swing Era

The Decline

https://www.marist.edu/professional-programs/center-lifetime-study/handouts

1850 1900 1950

Swing

Era

Jazz

Age

Jazz

Ragtime

The Big Band Era

Pop Music Development Society Music

1910 1920 1930 1940

Today…

Stephen Foster Sheet Music – Minstrel

Pop Music Development

Scott JoplinRagtime

Review…

• Based on African-American traditions• Improvised from many musical styles• Black & Creole collaboration in

Storyville, New Orleans.

Jazz Development (1890-1910)

• Buddy Bolden – Led first popular Jazz band in New Orleans

• Famous for the playing style that would lay the foundation for early jazz bands

New Orleans

Review…

Jelly Roll Mortoncomposition

Early Jazz Pioneers

Sidney Bechetstyle

Review…

Irene and Vernon CastleBallroom Dancing

Society Music – early 1900s

James Reese EuropeConcert-Society-Ragtime-

Jazz

Review…

Jazz Recorded - 1917

Nick LaRoccaThe Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Review…

Louis Armstrong Duke EllingtonReview…

Marian McPartland

1918 - 2013

Paul Whiteman (1890-1967)

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Fletcher Henderson

Don Redman

1900 - 1964

Bix Beiderbecke