Jazz music reflecting American multiculturalism 

                                 Jazz music reflecting American multiculturalism

            Jazz music originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans in the United    States and developed from the roots in ragtime hence widely known as the Americas classical music, (William, Vol. 82.) Growing on an era of the great American cultural evolution, jazz was founded the time from the Bebop era to the present midst of the 1940s onwards. The genre is considered to be a formal notion beginning from the Harlem Renaissance that’s roughly from 1919 to 1939 a period where the prominent black leaders were on the lookout in elevating the black culture, (Michael, 2006).

Therefore, Jazz music had already established itself as an influential music style referenced in the black literature era. A unique style of drumming was restructured by Kenny Clarke. The special technique of drumming led particularly to distinctive two transformations, the ride cymbal a drummer’s equipment for specifically designating rhythm and tempo, unlike bass drum and the ideology on “bombs” modulation. Bebop brought a lot of innovations to jazz, especially regarding solos.

Bebop would serve influence on every genre of jazz upon ideas such as improvisation and melody. Bebop musicians made jazz more off blues-oriented and riff-based. Generally, Bebop was a music genre about freedom of expression and a music type perceived to be escaping the old melodic and harmonic restraint, (Ramsey, Vol. 7). It has continued to infiltrate the pop charts making it more famous among American society

Reference

Borshuk, Michael. Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature. Routledge, 2006.

Peretti, Burton William. The creation of jazz: Music, race, and culture in urban America. Vol. 82. University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Ramsey, G. P. (2003). Race music: Black cultures from bebop to hip-hop (Vol. 7). Univ of California Press.