BL ST 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Original Dixieland Jass Band, Jelly Roll Morton, Civil War Era In Norway
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Perry - black, black commercialization of blacks good / adding to society / capitalist everyone else / dispensable / borderlands / unwanted / expendable worth to society subjugated, put on a pedestal. Johnson - white, black human tendency to fit into binary, categorized. Potentially interpreted as diluting the black influence and empowerment. What social and cultural factors caused jazz to emerge in new orleans instead of other. Arguably, new orleans jazz created a new subjectivity in america out of its dialog with community. Considering what clyde woods and marc perry write, why has the emergence of that new subjectivity been arrested? . It could potentially be interpreted as diluting the black influence, solidarity, and empowerment. The convergence of economic, social, and cultural forces created a crucible environment for jazz to emerge in new orleans early in the 20th century. However, the industrialization of the north and west shifted migration and new orleans went into decline.
