Prague, Czech Republic

Double Bass - Jazz

Master's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: arts
Years of study: 2
University website: www.amu.cz
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. Jazz is seen by many as "America's classical music". Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience and styles to the art form as well. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".
Jazz
"If you have to ask, you'll never know."
Louis Armstrong when asked to define the rhythmic concept of "swing", quoted in Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz by John F. Szwed, 2000. ISBN 0786884967.
Jazz
"There is nothing but jazz."
Konrad Stragier in a poem
Jazz
"Jazz is the false liquidation of art—instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture."
Theodor Adorno, quoted in The Sociology of Rock by Simon Frith, 1978. ISBN 0094602204.
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