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Running Head: Role of Women In Jazz From 1920 - 1930
Jazz Music of U.S during the 1920 to 1930
Role played by Women
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Jazz Music of U.S during the 1920 to 1930
Role played by Women
Introduction:
Jazz is considered as America's greatest cultural achievement. It was the first local music that was developed in America. At the beginning jazz was just a kind of dance music that was performed by bands, but by the time the rhythm became the most important element of music. Jazz was divided into different style, which included fast and slow, both kinds of tracks.
In early days, women were not considered to be a part of professionalism. But slowly and gradually they started occupying space in every field of professional world. Jazz is one of them. Women used to study piano in the nineteenth century, but their abilities were centered in their homes only.
Bessie Smith, February 3rd 1936
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English: Bessie Smith official death certificate i...But by the end of the nineteenth century, it started to change.
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History of Women in Jazz:
The part played by women in the development of jazz music begins at the start of the genre's history. The person that is credited with introducing the jazz around 1900 was a woman, Lucile DesMoulins, whose composition was the first blues song known to many jazz musicians. The format of the Jazz band in an accompanying role to a female singer of bluesy songs became well-established within popular music by the early 1920s. The Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, arguably the granddaddy of all swing bands, began its existence as a backup band for singer Ethel Waters, and many of the musicians who accompanied vaudeville blues artists went on to shine as influential soloists and leaders in the...