American Popular Music

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American Popular Music

• Dr. Joseph Harchanko
• Week 2 - Wednesday
• Chapters 3-4

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Freak Dances
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vYzC1h2XnmwY
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Freak Dances

• Cakewalk
• WW I era rise of dance hall and cabarets
• Turkey trot, fox trot, grizzly bear
• Tango- ball room, habanera, light opera, gaucho
  ballads (NY 1910)

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Europe and Castles
Vernon and Irene Castle
James Reese Europe (1880-1919)
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When you think of Europe
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You think of castles.
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Castle House Rag

• 1914 James Reese Europe
• A B A rounded binary (also AABBA or AA BA BA

A
A
B
B
A
C
C
D
D
E
E
F
What piece used a similar form?
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The Jazz Age -Why it was dangerous

• What is Jazz?

Indigenous American Art from founded my African
Americans, primarily in New Orleans
Improvisatory music
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Where did it come from?

• New Orleans, around 1900
• Confluence of ragtime, marching bands, Mardi Gras
  and funeral processions, French and Italian
  opera, Caribbean and Mexican music, Tin Pan Alley
  songs, African American song tradition (gospel
  and blues)

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Why was jazz dangerous?

• Alcohol consumption
• Indiscriminate sex
• Effeminacy
• Suicide
• Bestiality
• Insanity
• Indigestion

-N.Y. Times as sited in Starr and Waterman p.60
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What factors contributed to the impact of Jazz?

• Three factors sited in Starr and Waterman pp.60-61

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Dixieland

• Collective improvisation, polyphonic jazz,
  syncopation, stoptime
  
• ODJB
• King Olivers Creole Jazz Band
• Shuffle Along

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The King of Jazz

• Paul Whiteman
• Symphonic Jazz
• Gershwin- Rhapsody in Blue