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'MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT IN THE ROARING TWENTY’S [pic] ? base The mid-twenties known as the â€Å" hollering Twenties” were a prison term of great(p) change, economic growth, mass production, urbanization (farmers locomote to larger industrial cities), cars, teleph unriv every(prenominal)ed, wireless, record players and prohibition. It was a plosive of a new license for women. It was for Americans and western Europeans, a break period from the first world, a time for pleasure and peace. Finall(a)y the Wall Street clang of 1929, ended this period as the keen economic depression set in worldwide.The hollering Twenties were the first opulent age of the American medicament and ofttimes known as â€Å"The hunch over epoch”. This â€Å"movement” in which go to bed practice of medicine grew in touristedity, likewise influenced other split of the world. However prior to the Jazz, jump was to drop all forms of music. ? America export practice of medicine to the world When the American bouncer Josephine baker visited Berlin in 1925, at the time when Francis Scott Fitzgerald print the Great Gatsby in the US, she performed at the â€Å" battleground Des Westens” and found it dazzling. The city had a jewel- equal sparkle,” she said, â€Å"the vast cafes reminded me of ocean liners powered by the rhythms of their orchestras. There was music everywhere. ” Eager to get a line ahead after the crushing tear of World fight I. The music vie in Berlin, Amsterdam, London, or Paris, for the or so part originated from undersized towns in America. ? Origins of music in the ‘ easy twenties’ Following World War I, around 500,000 African Americans in hunt club of better employment opportunities moved to the Yankee part of the linked States.They left their alkali towns of mod Orleans, (Louisiana), or Saint Louis (Missouri), Kansas metropolis (Missouri)… With them, they brought their cult ure to the North in places like Chicago (Illinois), Detroit (Michigan), Cincinnati (Ohio), Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), and York City (NY) which became the place for the â€Å"Harlem conversion” During this period of time, the works of African Americans in fields such as make-up and music esca slowlyd. Styles of music including Dixieland and vapors became favorite as well.Throughout the 1920s many sight took an interest in music and in leap. They owned balmys, trumpets, saxophones, drums, bass, guitars, clarinets, trombones and played sheet music, listened to records and visited theatres, and move clubs. With the help of radio broadcasting, new artists accommodate famous all over the United States and for some around the world. ? Dance clubs in the 1920’s Dance clubs became enormously common in the 1920s. Dance music came to reign all forms of frequent music by the late 1920s. Classical pieces, operettas, folk music, and so on ere all transformed into dance music in order to please schoolgirlish people much as the dance phenomena would subsequent do in the late 1970s. For example, many of the songs from the 1929 Technicolor musical operetta The page Song ( thaumaturgistring the Metropolitan Opera star Lawrence Tibbett) were rearranged and released as dance music and became popular club hits in 1929. Dance clubs crosswise the U. S. sponsored dance contests, where dancers invented, tried, and competed with new moves. Professionals began to perform in tap dance and other dances crosswise the United States.With the advent of talking pictures (sound pullulate) musicals became the principal(prenominal) attraction. Film studios flooded the box post with new musical films, many of which were shoot in ‘Technicolor’ ne of the most popular of these musicals, ‘Gold Diggers of Broadway’ became the most known film of the decade. Harlem played a key theatrical role in the development of dance styles. With some(pre nominal) entertainment venues, people from all walks of life, all races, and all classes came together. The ‘ cotton plant hostel’ feature melanize performers and catered to a white clientele, piece of music the ‘Savoy Ballroom’ catered to a mostly pitch-black clientele. Popular dances & Musicians The most popular dances throughout the decade were the: foxtrot, waltz, and American tango. From the azoic 1920s, however, a variety of eccentric knickknackery dances were developed. The first of these were the Breakaway and capital of West Virginia. Both were establish on African-American musical styles and beats, including the widely popular blues. The Charleston dance became popular after appearing along with the song, â€Å"The Charleston,” by James P. Johnson in the Broadway musical Runnin sick in 1923.Although the origins of the dance are obscure, the dance has been traced back to blacks who lived on an island off the edge of Charleston , South Carolina (which is why the dance is called â€Å"Charleston”). A brief Black ass dance, originating from the Apollo Theatre in Haarlem (NY), swept dance halls from 1926 to 1927, replacing the Charleston in popularity. By 1927, the Lindy Hop, a dance found on Breakaway and Charleston and integrate elements of tap, became the dominant social dance. Developed in the Savoy Ballroom, it was set to stride piano ragtime jazz.The Lindy Hop would after evolve into Swing dance. These dances, nonetheless, were danced by lessened groups of people. The majority of people continued to dance the foxtrot, waltz, and tango. On the singing side, top singers were knap Lucas, Scrappy Lambert, Frank Munn, Lewis James , gene Austin, Franklyn Baur, Johnny Marvin, and Ruth Etting. Leading orchestra leadership included Bob Haring, Harry Horlick, Louis Katzman, king of beasts Reisman, Victor Arden, Phil Ohman, George Olsen, Ted Lewis, Abe Lyman, Ben Selvin, Nat Shilkret, Fred Waring, an d Paul Whiteman. ? All that jazz in the 1920’sHowever, despite all these trends and forms of music, the most known would remain the Jazz. Jazz is a musical style that originated at the spring of the 20th century in black communities in the Southern United States. It was innate(p) out of a mix of African and European music traditions. One name, one of the most famous jazz musicians of all time, is worth mentioning. Louis Daniel Armstrong (1901 †1971), from New Orleans, Louisiana, displayed his amazing talents as a trumpeter, cornet player, and singer during the Jazz Age. He studied and played with a famed cornet player named Joseph â€Å" fairy Oliver” Oliver (1885 †1938).In 1925, â€Å"Satchmo,” (his nickname) who had learned to play cornet at the age of twelve, started The Hot Fives. The band would later gain two more musicians and was befittingly renamed The Hot Sevens. He did not cut his talents to just music, however. He also have in films such as Pennies from Heaven. He continued working in the experience three years of his life, most of which was spend in hospitals. He died at sign on July 6, 1971. Some of the many artists of that time also included Duke Ellington (1899 †1974), Joseph â€Å"King Oliver” Oliver (1885 †1938), Bessie metalworker (1894? 1937), Benny Goodman (1909 †1986), and Ma Rainey. ? Conclusion: The booming Twenties: a golden age for American Music and dance The Roaring Twenties period has long been considered a golden era of American guild; the standard of living was rising, morality was creation re-defined, innovation and business was soaring, and the general ordinary perceived that times were good. It has been considered also as a golden age for the music and entertainment industry such as dance, theatre and film industry. Definition: The Harlem reincarnation was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the â€Å"New Negro Moveme nt”, named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. Though it was centered in the Harlem neighbourhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. PICTURES [pic] New York Dance Club 1923 [pic] Jazz Orchestra Houston Tx. 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