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Beginnings To 1917: The Origins Of Jazz

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“Beginnings to 1917” was the first episode of Burns' remarkable Jazz miniseries segments. So it was natural to discuss the origin of the jazz as a new musical style. The jazz rooted from a city in New Orleans where had a rich and diverse musical culture, including the Caribbean rhythms, Italian opera, etc. In this northern American era during the nineteenth century, the black also had chances to listen to music, which was less likely in the widespread slave-holding South. For slaves, singing could help them spend the heavy and arduous labor work in the fields, which later developed into “work songs”. Various elements, such as creole music, war, blues and slave traditions, blended together and produced jazz.
Some of the earliest performers
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