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Victorian Decorum
“Sweet jazz dancing signified a temporary abandonment of Victorian decorum and manners.” - Burton W. Peretti
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Cultural Leadership
“In creating jazz, black players exercised a kind of cultural leadership in America that has rarely been permitted or acknowledged.” - Burton W. Peretti
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The Art Form Of Jazz
- More than any other art form, Jazz was shaped by, and spoke of, these cultural reconciliations and compromises
- The music was highly rhythmic, the contribution of the drums and of its symbiotic relation to dance
- The music, because of its rich spiritual and social role, was com...
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“Louis Armstrong’s trumpet, speaks to the possibilities available to the individual in a democracy.”
WYNTON MARSALIS
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Migration & Jazz
- Musicians had absorbed the education and diverse stimuli provided by the experience of migration, they entered a stage of independent and self-definition, in which the materials of the common musical culture became elements of distinctive and acknowledged personal styles
- As musicians...
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Creative Alternatives
”The creation of Jazz is therefore a story of expanding creative alternatives, energized by new educational resources, profit-making opportunities, and social connections in urban America; but it is also a story of individual and group aspirations stymied, and sometimes c...
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Jazz was a groundbreaking art form that allowed black musicians to thrive in urban America. This book is a great study for those interested in the medium.
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Social rules
- Have good manners.
- Be on time.
- Personal space. Every culture has different comfort levels of personal space, so before you travel, find out how close you can get to people without being rude.
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