Jazz is a cultural movement that originally started out as a musical style of the African-American populations within highly dense port cities. The movement sparked the Harlem Renaissance and elevated the positions of African-Americans within the American cultural realm, seemingly proving a point that racial degradation under the rhetoric that a certain race did not understand culture was completely illogical. It additionally questioned the concept of prestigious art, and stood against the reactionary claims that the “lowly arts” of jazz did not have a place in American society (Early). The movement of music truly propelled the commencement of modern art, and set the foundation for creative yet unconventional music. Jazz music is well-known …show more content…
The widely-used Chinese loan characters were inherently incompatible to Korean speech, but most importantly, they were inaccessible to the peasants due to their complex nature. Thus, “Hangul” was created to fix these issues. However, as soon as the writing system was released, it received unwarranted criticisms from the Korean nobility. The nobility believed that universal literacy was unfavorable, and deplored how the new script went against centuries of literature written in Chinese characters. Yet, with the passage of time, modern Koreans appreciate the value of having an original Korean script and take pride in its unconventional yet simplistic system. In fact, the North Korean government has banned the usage of Chinese writing to approve the Korean script as a sole representation of the oral language. The history of “Hangul” is similar to jazz in that elites once condemned it for its mass-appealing nature, only to later reevaluate it as a symbol of …show more content…
In its inception, people considered jazz to be “anti-bourgeoisie” and the “devil’s music” due to its appeal to the poor masses and dramatic contrast in style to musical conventions. However, the change of four decades alone from the 1920’s to the 1960’s was enough to significantly restructure the interpretation of jazz. A prominent Soviet cartoon “The Millionaire,” which denounces the life of the bourgeoisie, associates jazz with elitist culture. So what caused this change? There are two primary reasons. The first is that with the simple passage of time, people begin to lose touch with jazz and gain the sense that it is less accessible to the public. The second is that jazz music’s profound influence upon other artistic forms and political actions glorified its status years after its