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    Jazz originated in late 19th century New Orleans from the blending of African and European musical traditions. It grew out of African American communities in the South after slavery and developed further in Storyville, New Orleans' red-light district, spreading through vaudeville performances. In the 1920s, jazz became popular dance music during the Jazz Age, gaining widespread appeal and influencing the development of later pop music genres. Its improvisational style can still be heard in many forms of American popular music today.

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    Jazz originated in late 19th century New Orleans from the blending of African and European musical traditions. It grew out of African American communities in the South after slavery and developed further in Storyville, New Orleans' red-light district, spreading through vaudeville performances. In the 1920s, jazz became popular dance music during the Jazz Age, gaining widespread appeal and influencing the development of later pop music genres. Its improvisational style can still be heard in many forms of American popular music today.

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    Jazz originated in late 19th century New Orleans from the blending of African and European musical traditions. It grew out of African American communities in the South after slavery and developed further in Storyville, New Orleans' red-light district, spreading through vaudeville performances. In the 1920s, jazz became popular dance music during the Jazz Age, gaining widespread appeal and influencing the development of later pop music genres. Its improvisational style can still be heard in many forms of American popular music today.

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    Jazz music

    Jazz is often considered Americas first musical invention. The music grew out of
    African-American communities in the South in the late 1800s and the early 1900s after
    slavery was abolished and many freed slaves set out to look for work. Due to strict
    segregation laws in the South, they had trouble finding it in traditional places of
    employment, but most of those laws didnt apply to entertainment gigs. African-Americans
    began to be hired to perform music in vaudeville and variety shows, where an upbeat
    music called ragtime became popular. In New Orleans, this music was transformed into
    jazz. Since New Orleans is a port city, people from all over the world came by boat every
    day, and began bringing musical traditions from their home countries into New Orleans
    nightclubs and entertainment venues. These forms of music blended together to become a
    lively blend known as jazz.
    The Jazz Age came about in the 1920s. The United States was changing women
    had been given the right to vote, and Prohibition was passed. Wild jazz music became the
    perfect background music to the turbulent times. Young people of all backgrounds began
    to take an interest in the music, and the African-American musicians that wrote and played
    it became respected and popular performers. From there many branches of jazz evolved,
    and seeped into other styles of pop music. Composer George Gershwin caused an uproar
    in the 1920s when he combined strong elements of jazz music with classical music in his
    work Rhapsody in Blue, now a very famous piece of American concert music. Many
    songwriters followed suit, and jazzs influence reached almost every form of popular music
    after it. Its free-form style can be heard in almost every form of American pop music today.

    Word scramble!
    Unscramble the letters to form the word that completes the sentence.
    1. The word jazz may have come from a slang word, jasm, which meant _________ ,
    energy, and vigor. RIPITS
    2. ____________ music is considered to be one of the roots of jazz. ESLUB
    3. African-American musicians playing in ___________________ shows helped spread
    jazz music throughout the northern and western United States. LEAUDEVLVI

    3. VAUDEVILLE 2.. BLUES 1. SPIRIT Answers:

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