What Made The Jazz Age Jazzy

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What Made The Jazz Age Jazzy ?

• Peggy Snyder
• Capital High School
• August 11,1999

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The Roaring Twenties
The decade of the twenties is often referred to
as the Jazz Age. However, the term has much
as much to do with the jazzy atmosphere of the
time as with the music!
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Jazzy Sounds

• Prohibition caused many of the jazz musicians to
  migrate north from New Orleans to Chicago
• Joe King Oliver was one of the best
• His claim to fame was hiring Louis Satchmo
  Armstrong

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Louis Armstrong

• Louis Armstrong is the greatest single figure in
  the entire history of jazz.
• The Hot Five seen here was one of the hottest
  groups of the twenties.

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Jelly Roll Morton

• Jelly Roll Morton led one of Chicagos most
  popular groups
• He was a piano player, band leader, and show
  business personality
• He got the name Jelly Roll because he rolled
  his fingers and his music was sweet

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Symphonic Jazz

• George Gershwin wrote both classical and popular
  music
• He was the first composer to combine jazz and
  classical music with Rhapsody in Blue in1924.
• He followed with
• An American in Paris in 1928.

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Jazzy Duds

• Flappers were typical young girls of the
  twenties, usually with bobbed hair, short skirts,
  rolled stockings, and powdered knees!
• They danced the night away doing the Charleston
  and the Black Bottom.

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Jazzy Talk -Twenties Slang

• Flat Tire - a dull, boring person
• Gam - a girls leg
• Gin Mill - A speak easy
• Hooch - bootleg liquor
• Hoofer - chorus girl
• Torpedo - a hired gunman

• All Wet - wrong
• Berries - anything wonderful
• Bees Knees - a superb person or thing
• Big Cheese -an important person
• Bump Off - to murder
• Dumb Dora - a stupid girl

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Twenty - Two Skidoo