MUS 15 Study Guide - Final Guide: Duke Ellington, William Grant Still, Darius Milhaud
Mus 15 Final Study Guide
Unit 8
Who were the intended consumers of Duke Ellington’s “Jungle Music” at the Cotton Club in
Harlem? How might this connect with what we have described as “imagined” ideas of Africa?
○Cotton Club-would put on tribal African performances that were
■Marketed to white audiences, but all the workers are black
■The cotton club was exclusively white, no blacks allowed, but all the workers
black except for upper management
■Used racist themes
■Happy slave
■Tribal Africa
■Plantations
■Would have chorus girls dressed to fit the theme, but they wanted light skin black
girls
■Performance of the af am stereotypes
○Duke Ellington
■Featured band at the cotton club from 1927-1931
■Marketed his music as the “jungle Sound”
■It was jazz and duke Ellington did not create “jungle sound” just how it
was marketed
■Reasons why listed as jungle sound
■Growl of the trumpet and trombone
■Just jazz style music attributed to af am
■Jazz=af am music=Africa=primitive
○Intended consumers of his music
■White people-upper and upper middle class
○How does “jungle music” connect with imagined ideas of Africa
■Jungle music is a marketing scheme, not really what it is
■Connection that they are making with the jazz duke Ellington is playing because
black with primitivism and connect the music with jungle music
■Performances are also like that
Document Summary
Who were the intended consumers of duke ellington"s jungle music at the cotton club in. Cotton club-would put on tribal african performances that were. Marketed to white audiences, but all the workers are black. The cotton club was exclusively white, no blacks allowed, but all the workers black except for upper management. Would have chorus girls dressed to fit the theme, but they wanted light skin black girls. Featured band at the cotton club from 1927-1931. Marketed his music as the jungle sound . It was jazz and duke ellington did not create jungle sound just how it was marketed. Just jazz style music attributed to af am. How does jungle music connect with imagined ideas of africa. Jungle music is a marketing scheme, not really what it is. Connection that they are making with the jazz duke ellington is playing because black with primitivism and connect the music with jungle music.
