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The Nation’s Early Experiments in JazzOur Back Pages / When the magazine began covering jazz in the 1920s, it often struggled to catch the beat. Richard Kreitner ...
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The African American Artists Who Moved To Paris During The Jazz AgeIn the roaring twenties, the world buzzed with jazz rhythms and a spirit of liberation. It was an era when African American artists found their creative voices and sought new horizons beyond the ...
The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious ...
a new creative path to explore in jazz. Historian Michael McGerr and Indiana University African-American Choral Ensemble director Keith McCutchen join Night Lights this Easter week for a look at ...
The chapter “Our Mainstream Jazz” describes how, by 1970, jazz gained a modernist, formalized sensibility after the influence ...
Alfredo Rodriguez will perform at the University of Georgia’s Ramsey Concert Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. It will ...
They wanted to place African American life in all corners of existence ... What Hughes developed was less like a simple, straightforward narrative and more like jazz, with improvisation at its center.
The free concert is based on the award-winning documentary The Quilt: A Living History of African American Music.
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