Jazz—Louis+Armstrong,+Duke+Ellington

Home 1920's Topics __1920’s Project Assignment__ Jazz and Duke Ellington Arat Infante
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__Task One__ **Explain the achievements associated with your topic. Who and what were altered? Describe why both were significant in the 1920s. Explain the relationship between the individua****l and the association or movement.** Jazz- "American music developed especially from ragtime and blues and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation..." (Merriam-Webster). Jazz music originated in New Orleans in the early 1900s and it began to spread in the "late 'teens" (Jazzstandards). Employment options began to open up in the North, specifically Chicago and both black and white musicians from New Orleans moved there. Prohibition and other things created many opportunities for musicians in small cabarets, dance halls and ballrooms. In this era, music was a hit and jazz was the most important part of it because its very upbeat of slowly melodic tunes. Throughout its history, names such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong came along and changed the course of the tradional and perfected the rest. Duke Ellington brought a sophisticated style to his jazz that was never seen before. Ellington had used a combination of instruments and made his music beautiful and deep (redhotjazz). He inspired many jazz artists to do more with jazz and he as well composed in an organized less chaotic beginning and led it to be more serious kind of music. Ellington's music was between commercial and artistic value and in some, drew back to classical music (allaboutjazz). His succeeded in all of these angles and perspectives and most importantly helped define the african- american experience through his art. He converted jazz to a more organized and more beautiful style that stretches to our time.

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 * < Jazz Standards. "Jazz History in Standard Time (1920s)." //Jazz Standards.com//.

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 * < "Edward 'Duke' Ellington." //Red Hot Jazz//. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Feb. 2012.

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 * < "jazz." Def. 1a. //Merriam-Webster//. //merriam-webster.com//. Web. 6 Feb. 2012.

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 * < Kirker, Tim. "Duke Ellington." //All About Jazz//. N.p., 5 Oct. 2005. Web. 5 Feb.

__Task Two__
 * Discuss the scope of influence of your topic on the 1920s. Which part of society was influenced? What is the topic's legacy?**

The Jazz age began to influence various things in both the social and artistic world. Jazz began to be played in dance halls and began to be incorporated into shows and clubs (1920-30). Although jazz was not the popular dance music of the time, different styles of blues-ragtime evolved to it which meant more and more people would listen to it everyday. Different types of dances were starting and like every world-wide change, there is debate. Like rock later on, jazz was considered the devil's music, it washed away in time, lot quicker than rock, but did and jazz started a new era of music. The most important part to the evolution of jazz was that people became more artistic and an artists voice began to be heard constantly and you could see that when Broadway developed its musical theatre.

“It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing." Duke Ellington once said. Ellington believed unlike many other musicians that the sound of every instrument could play against each other, and the focused on the soloists style and skills (PBS). He had won many awards and honors in his time and after his death of lung cancer, the most appreciated details of his career were how modulated (changing keys) and his untraditional construction of his songs as well as his organization(NotableBiographies and All About Jazz). Ellington set a standard for the way music was created and played. The Jazz era and performers like Duke would live on and there legacy remains to this day.

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 * < "Duke Ellington." //PBS//. Thirteen, 12 Dec. 2002. Web. 8 Feb. 2012.

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 * < "Duke Ellington Biography." //Notable Biographies//. Advameg, 2012. Web. 8 Feb.

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 * < "1920's Music." //1920-30//. N.p., 2005. Web. 8 Feb. 2012.

A star is born and nobody is about to stop him. Ellington grew up in the white house as the son to a butler and learned to play the piano at seven years and composed in his teens (All Music). He was well informed about music at his young age and had a band after dropping out of school in his junior year. When he bcame older, he was advertised everywhere, and there was an overwhelmingly good public reaction to him and this encouraged Ellington's resolve to be a composer (Cohen 72). He became a composer and he had developed an organized form of music and focused on many individual sounds from most instruments in his orchestras. Duke was and event making hero, because the fact that he was very talented and had revolutionized a style of music, doesn't mean that it was only he who could have done so, at one point it was bound to happen (Great Man Criteria). Ellington though a legend for his creations, also just a Rosa Parks, did what would have eventually happened, but happened to be that first.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">New Orleans, the birthplace to Jazz, but why New Orleans? Jazz had existed and its components was made up of the many non jazz styles there were, and this music was played in dozens of cities, yet New Orleans is considered its birthplace (Red Hot Jazz). This is because the main factor to Jazz was undermined in these other cities, in New Orleans was the black Creole subculture. The reactions to this Jazz age were reckless because the truth is, it was wild and in order for people [young] to find their place in this world, was through acting out and jazz was the way at the time (Trailend). This was the new form of entertainment, this was the most up to date trend, and the funny thing is that it remained that way for a long period of time. Jazz had opened up more cultures since it was created by the african american culture, this meant a great deal the american one (Writework). The american culture was expressed the culture of the africans and gave them a more social standpoint and because that lasts to today, Jazz is a great hero, for it began, and it became poplular and still is evolutionizing music slowly, a man at a time.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Individuals with high mostly 5’s should be placed close to Great Men; those with low scores near social determinism.
 * Great Man Criteria || ** 5=long-run ** || ** 4=wide-spread ** || ** 3=moderate ** || ** 2=short run ** || ** 1=little effect ** || ** 0=not at all ** ||
 * ** SIGNIFICANCE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT ** || <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">FIVE || <span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">FOUR ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ENDURANCE OF LEGACY || <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">FIVE ||  || <span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">THREE ||   ||   ||   ||
 * EXTENT OF INFLUENCE || <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">FIVE ||  || <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">THREE ||   ||   ||   ||
 * IMPACT ON DAILY LIFE ||  || <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">FOUR || <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">THREE ||   ||   ||   ||

<span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">X- DUKE ELLIGINTON <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">X- JAZZ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; text-align: center;">Great Man Continuum <span style="background-color: #ffff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Great ---Event Making <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #00ff00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px;">X Eventful Social <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px;"> Men --- <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px;">X <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px;">-Hero ---Hero -Determinism

Feb. 2012. <http://www.allmusic.com/artist/duke-ellington-p72532/ biography>. ||
 * < Ruhlmann, William. "Duke Ellington." //All Music//. Rovi Corporation, n.d. Web. 14

Web. 14 Feb. 2012. <http://books.google.com/ books?id=5ponZR7emQMC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=duke+ellington+reaction+in+1920&source= bl&ots=QXcYbLhvZR&sig=jTNxLWWLARCe50zZaKu7KokqrsA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dc46T_-WO6rm2QXus pS8Cg&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false>. ||
 * < Cohen, Harvey G. //Duke Ellignton's America//. Chicago: n.p., 2010. //Google Books//.

<http://www.redhotjazz.com/originsarticle.html>. ||
 * < Weinstock, Len. "Origins of Jazz." //Red Hot Jazz//. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2012.

<http://www.trailend.org/dow-jazzage.htm>. ||
 * < "The Jazz Age." //Trail End//. Trail End Guilds, Nov. 2011. Web. 14 Feb. 2012.

Web. 14 Feb. 2012. <http://www.writework.com/essay/ jazz-urban-and-rural-reactions-1920s> ||
 * < "jazz: Urban and Rural Reactions in the 1920s." //Writework//. N.p., 14 Oct. 2001.

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Rubric for all three tasks: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Outstanding paragraphs include the following elements: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Accurate power paragraph format w<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;">ith each paragraph citing evidence from three different sources. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Correct research components such as credibility statement,<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;"> internal citations, Works Cited entries <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Thoughtful and thorough response to the each prompt <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ A variety of sentences with interesting, clear diction <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Photos exemplifying the influence of the individual and association or movement <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Place your topic on the Great Man Continuum; <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Complete the criteria table to justify the reasons for your placement.
 * TheGreatManCriteriaWorksheet ||