Essays on Jazz

In the 1920s during the Jazz Age in the United States, American literature grew. One of the best writers in the 1920s was Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Everyone called him F. Scott Fitzgerald. At this time, there were three Republican presidents in a row from 1920...

Try to imagine world without Rock and Roll. Would pop music be the same as it is right now? It has been a long road from the beginning of 20th century until now. Many different musical genres have consumed society. Every genre in every particular...

In the 18th century, African people who were slaves gathered at a market and performed their dance in that area. Later on, in 1866, the Atlantic slave trade brought nearly 400 thousands of African people to North America. They had a strong musical traditions along...

Between 1900 and 1945, there were multiple contextual factors that affected the development of jazz music as a whole. These factors include economy, race/ethnicity and politics, three factors that ultimately shaped not only jazz music, but jazz musicians, and helped form what we now know...

The Jazz Age was a period during the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and move styles quickly increased across the country prevalence in the United States. The Jazz Age’s social repercussions were basically felt in the United States, the origin of jazz. Starting...

Ella Fitzgerald, also known as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella , was without any doubt one of the greatest, if not the greatest, jazz vocalists of the 20th Century. With a vocal range spanning three octaves, she was noted...