BL ST 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Black Jazz Records
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Blog post title thesis address each question, each body paragraph overarching thing of how they"re connected specific examples, can quote. The loss of cultural traditions due to commercialization in jazz. White interest in jazz: the best and worst thing. Title: the chicago style : the commercialization of jazz. Thesis: chicago was more important to jazz in the 1920"s due to the cultural significance as a. Mecca and the development of a new chicago style through white musicians and blues singers. Chicago as a mecca drew musicians, including ones from new orleans, who migrated to take advantages of the opportunities present to enter the musical mainstream. Travis stated that even his father and presumably his generation believed that being a musician was a way out of the working class and into a glamorous life. Likewise, women had the opportunity to escape being just a servant yet were confined to singing since jazz is largely a masculinist project marginalizing women.
