HISTOIRE DES ARTS

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HISTOIRE DES ARTS

• From Gospel to Hip Hop Jazz
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• New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz and the
  blues. The city was founded by the Spanish, and
  then taken over by the French until it was
  ultimately sold by Napoleon to the USA in 1803.
• Where was jazz born?
• New Orleans
• Who created the city?
• The Spanish
• What was the city second nationality?
• French
• When did it become American?
• In 1803
• Who sold it?
• Napoleon

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• New Orleans, situated where the Mississippi
  River enters the Gulf of Mexico, was not like any
  other American city. While the USA people were
  divided into strict racial categories like white
  or black, in New Orleans there was an
  intermediate group the Creoles, born of married
  white men having coloured mistresses.
• Which very large river is next to New Orleans?
• The Mississippi River
• How was American society?
• Racist
• What is a Creole?
• A person with mix-raced parents
• Where did Creoles live?
• In New Orleans

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• The Creoles lost their social position and their
  businesses because of racism, and had to live in
  the poor black parts of the city. There, they
  began to play with American and Caribbean blacks
  whose music had African tempo. The result was
  jazz.
• Who did the Creole play music with?
• The Blacks
• The black musicians went north to Memphis,
  Chicago and New York where they played the new
  music. This was a new world, a world for the
  young.
• Where did the musicians go?
• In the North, to Memphis, Chicago and New York

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Try to memorize as many instruments as possible
in a minute.
saxophone
trumpet
banjo
piano
Double bass
trombone
clarinet
drums
guitar
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Music style Origin /Date Place Instruments Characteristics People
JAZZ Creole white music black African music 1920s New Orleans (Mississippi) move North  Memphis, Chicago, New York City Double bass Saxophone Piano Trumpet Trombone Guitar Clarinet Drums Jazz clubs Charleston Louis Armstrong
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Mme Garnier-Colas/ LP Pierre Doriole

• text adapted from Today in English, July August
  2005 and 2009
• photo from http//www.odjb.com/VintagePhotoODJB.ht
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• Instrument poster from http//www.allposters.co.uk
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• The charleston http//www.youtube.com/watch?vZJC
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• Extract from the film  Cotton Club 
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• Luis Prima http//www.youtube.com/watch?vCodmlmx
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