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Origins of Jazz Music
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Title: The origin and growth of Jazz music
The Jazz music of the twenties, comparable to the rock of the sixties and the disco of the seventies, was the sound of a new revolution. It was something that America had never heard before. The time came to be known the “Jazz Age”. F. Scott Fitzgerald named the era, Louis Armstrong dominated it, and the 1929 crash of the stock market ended it. This new music created a style filled with strong rhythms and syncopation, a sound that was a memory of the slaves that could not have been taken away from them when they stepped onto American soil. The Jazz music, even the word Jazz, and its first beginnings in America still remain unclear. However, its growth and innovators are clearer. Cities
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