Please read all the information on the attachment files to find the answer to the questions. New Orleans to Chicago Worksheet 1. 1. In what ways did early jazz bands differ from their Ragtime, Br
The Jazz Age 1.Chicago's State Street While jazz was born and raised in New Orleans, it became an adult in Chicago. The 1920s were a period of great change and innovation in America. Radio, motion pictures, automobiles, phonograph records, skyscrapers, Charles Lindberg, Babe Ruth, Trans -Atlantic phone calls….America and the world were moving forward. This new and exciting time called for new and exciting music. Jazz was well placed to take advantage.Jazz came to symboliz e the new undeniably bold spirit of America in the 1920s as well as its slang, clothing and dance styles. This prompted F. Scott Fitzgerald to label the 1920s “The Jazz Age”. This is the time of “flappers”, “speakeasies”, women’s right to vote (19 th amen dment - 1920), dance crazes like “The Charleston” and gangsters. The “Great Migration” took place between 1916 and 1930. Millions of Southern black Americans moved up the Mississippi river to Chicago and North to New York. Many came to escape discriminatio n and Jim Crow laws, but mainly it was jobs, jobs, jobs. The musicians came too. Hundreds of bars, restaurants, society clubs, cafes and dance halls had plenty of work for talented musicians. Kansas City and Chicago became wide open party towns just like N ew Orleans before them. The alcohol prohibition of 1920 didn’t slow things down much at all.
