MUSIC 78 Lecture Notes - Ernest Hemingway, French Horn, Esperanza Spalding
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1 jazz: music originated by african americans teaching/learning through the oral tradition. Music is central to life and spirituality. 1900 - folk, blues, spirituals, new orleans style (ragtime, dixieland) 1920 - ragtime, boogie-woogie, beginnings of swing band. 1950 - bebop, hard bop, bossa nova, modal, cool. Jam session - when musicians get together and play competition, like a dance off o aka cutting sessions. 3: blues is the root of jazz, robert johnson country blues o, bessy smith. 2 repeated lines, 3rd line different but rhymes considered devil"s music because it was played in brothels ect. independent blues player w/a guitar classic blues singer first diva refused to wear black-face o. 4 o use of the blues form and popular song form swing bands: fletcher henderson one of the earliest swing bandleaders in the 20"s pianist, band-leader, composer o o o o.
