The beginning of Jazz and what it brought to the American culture. Jazz resulted in the rebellion of the young youth differently than the past music. The reason Jazz influenced the youth as it did is because most music can speak to the soul. Music can make you think of people and memories. It can also make you smile or want to sing along or dance or maybe even feel like crying. Music can affect anyone differently but yet again everyone listens to different styles of music and songs that can influence anyone in a different kind of way. Jazz was just that one style of music that helped bring change to America.
The type of music before the birth of Jazz. Music is a good thing to have and with Jazz you gotta understand where it came from. Music wasn’t a luxury but a necessity for most New Orleans even before Jazz. The influence of European folk and African elements merged with popular American mainstream. After the new century, Jazz began emerging with ragtime, blues, spiritual, marches, and popular fare of “Tin Pan Alley” (“A New Orleans Jazz History, 1895-1927”).
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It was the beginning of a new generation and Jazz became popular in the “Roaring Twenties” and different types of technology that was being brought into the American culture were Jazz could be heard on the radio or purchased and listened to at home from a radio. Harlem’s Cotton Club was one of the famous venues in that time where whites and blacks gathered to listen to Jazz and have a good time. Women attended Jazz clubs in large numbers and “flappers” became a staple in U.S. pop culture. Those women flouted orthodox gender norms, bobbing their hair, smoking cigarettes, and engaging in other behaviors traditionally associated with men (“American culture in the