How Did Jazz Music Influence Politics?

Many of Hughs writings envolved societal culture issues. However, Hughs had a less known poem that venture into a genre of jazz that was called be-bop. Bebop was considered a revolt from the traditional jazz and it was becoming a distinctive part of modernism in the African American communities. Nevertheless, Hughs lesser-known writing was called “Montage of a Dream Deferred.” This writing was also distinctive to bebop. The Montage was a spin from African American culture and vernacular

Harlem's Cotton Club boasted the talents of Duke Ellington. Singers such as Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday popularized blues and jazz vocals. Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong drew huge audiences as white Americans as well as African Americans caught jazz

Jazz music had been around long before the 1920's because it was played by African Americans. Once white people stopped and listened, they fell in love. It became the craze and way of life. Jazz outlasted its era and was completely "American" (Baughman Vol. 3).

For example, if there are more than one melodist, one can play the melody and the other one can play a harmony, long notes or another melody in the background. Generally, Cool Jazz has more complex arrangements than Bebop. Bebop is usually a fast tempo piece, with a very uncomplicated arrangement or no arrangement at all. For example, if there is more than one melodist, they both generally play the same melody or sometimes they split for certain notes, however they don't play contrasting parts all together. Bebop Jazz came before cool jazz, but the two styles of jazz are very different.

Ellington music was filled with Jazz and included a range of other genres of works. “Caravan” is categorized in the genre of Jazz with styles of swing, big band, and early jazz. This song has a mood of elegance and refined, with a theme of reminiscence. The lyrics are written by Irving Mills and in most versions, are not sung because the words do not appear as strong at the melody. In Ella Fitzgerald’s rendition of the song she does sing the lyrics and they are sought to be very dreamy.

Black performers were not allowed to perform on stage for most of the 19th century. Ernest Hogan, a black minstrel and vaudeville comedian, made great strides in black performance as “the first African-American performer to play before a white audience on Broadway,” but was forced to perform in “blackface” for much of his career. (‘Shuffle Along’ and the Lost History of Black Performance in America, Sullivan). Ironically, white people used “blackface” to portray black people on stage, but it was considered inappropriate for a black person to appear on stage; “they could not, that is, appear as themselves. The sight wasn’t tolerated by white audiences” (Sullivan).

As the major story plot in the prose, the steady life of narrator and free life of Sonny are the representations of the steady bass clef and boogied treble clef respectively in piano blues (Harrison, 2013). Altogether, these two clefs compose a tune of a piece of piano music, just as the plot of the story. Conclusion Sound is inescapable. As a type of sound, music is perfectly infiltrated and combined with a well-constructed story plot prompted by brotherhood and redemption. In this way, Baldwin successfully portraits the new form of jazz, the minority music in the 50s in America alongside with the protagonists’ internal struggles and evolvements.

The ratification of civil rights legislation created only a beginning of a change because the Emancipation Proclamation failed to free all slaves, Whites did not view Blacks as social equals, and most Southern Whites would not cooperate with the new laws. Despite the hardship and the tortures of the American slave system, Blacks continued to move forward, innovate, and trailblaze a new path to make America more

“In the process, it introduced white New Yorkers to to black music, theatre and entertainment and helped generated the white fascination with Harlem and the African American arts that was so much a part of the Harlem Renaissance. Shuffle Along also bought jazz to Broadway.” (Wintz 2015) After the war, black music such as jazz and blues became progressively liked within the black and white

Jazz is often associated with blackness and slavery. Unsurprisingly, several jazz musicians follow the ideals of Afrofuturism. According to Davids article in 2007, Sun Ra is one of the best examples within the jazz genre. His music shares a lot of the post-human ideals. The ideas