The status of African Americans was elevated, due to the popularity of this distinctly African American music. For the first time in American history, what was previously considered "bottom culture" rose to the top and became a highly desired commodity in society.
Men's pants bagged and women's hair was cut short. The content of the music has also evolved over the course of hundred and fifty years in the form of different subgenres. The music gained in popularity during the Jazz Age s and s where it affected the cultural landscape in political, social, and economic experiences. Jazz music was also a major player during Prohibition, a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, distribution, and sale of alcohol beverages from to As a result of Prohibition, speakeasies places where customers would socialize with alcohol present were formed and jazz music flourished in these spaces.
This music was chosen because it reflected the opposite in the atmosphere of these illegal events. Usually started by crime organizers like Al Capone, jazz musicians had steady work to build a financial and professional profile. Some of the popular jazz artists during this era were Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, and Ethel Waters while introducing musical styles like scat singing and playing with an orchestra.
Al instructed Ralph to book only black musicians because he considered them as oppressed as his Italian immigrant relatives. The Rise of Jazz and Jukeboxes Scroll to read more.
Courtesy of Library of Congress. Duke Ellington right at piano with his band the Washingtonians, Bix Beiderbecke, jazz musician, with cornet, Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, the classic book about the Jazz Age a term he originated , shown here in about Louis Armstrong, jazz great, with trumpet, Scott Fitzgerald Herbert Brenon - Trailer.
The Rise of Jazz and Jukeboxes While jazz music predated Prohibition, the new federal law restricting liquor advanced the future of jazz by creating a nationwide underground nightclub culture in the s. The phonograph record became the primary method of disseminating music, surpassing sales of sheet music and piano rolls.
The music industry, ever keen to discover new ways of making profits, realized that record, sheet music and piano roll sales could all be tied together. Some of the great early jazz, blues and country performers appeared on indie labels like Gennett, Paramount and Okeh.
Toward the end of the decade, radio went from being an expensive novelty into a major purveyor of inexpensive entertainment. With the beginning of the Great Depression, phonograph and sheet music sales would plummet and radio would become the most important medium in the music industry.
By the late s motion pictures had gone from silent to sound, creating another medium for the sale of sheet music and phonograph records.
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