Jazz

3rd week,March

1. Jazz

African slave workers in the 1800's sang songs and spirituals (religious songs), these African songs were mixed whit the European songs of the slave owners. This mixing music was the beginning of today's jazz music. Jazz music is various, by the 1940's there were many different types of jazz music, including bop, traditional swing, Dixieland, and Latin-influenced jazz. It became a big business and in the mid 1940's, it was at its height of popularity. Jazz has many forms, and there are still new ones being made, it combines hip-hop, soul, funk elements with jazz. Jazz has a great mixture of rhythm and beat, it always be popular.