Write 20 pages with APA style on The History of New Jerseys Musicians, Songwriters, and Singers.

Write 20 pages with APA style on The History of New Jerseys Musicians, Songwriters, and Singers. New Jersey was the third state to join the union. Many of the leaders in that period were well educated and cultured men who embodied the values of the European countries from where their ancestors came. Dutch, Swedish and British settlers imprinted aspects of their culture on the early New Jersey landscape, and this accounts for its relatively fast move from a traditional farming economy to extensive industrialization and a focus on trade and shipping, and eventually railways as well. Church music was, of course, a staple of cultural life in the early days, but the situation as far as music is concerned in the new colonies was very different from that in Europe: “the great European musical tradition grew over the years in the sheltered environment of courts and cathedrals. American music, on the other hand, made its own way in the rougher area of musical entrepreneurship and amateur music making.”&nbsp. The so-called “middle colonies” of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey contained a mix of peoples, and so from the beginning, there was British chamber music, Irish dance music, and Scandinavian square dancing based on Scandinavian traditional music with violins, all co-existing at the same time. New Jersey author and politician Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791) who took part in the creation of the American constitution was a very keen musician: “In the years before his premature death, by now a highly honored national figure and Federal District Court Judge, he seemed most proud to proclaim himself ‘the first Native of the United States who has produced a Musical Composition.’ ”&nbsp. &nbsp.His compositions were a mix of concert pieces and sacred music, with&nbsp.score and text, designed for the elite members of early American society in Philadelphia and New York. Throughout the nineteenth century, New Jersey, like most other American states, set about building concert halls and other venues to enable performances of both high brow and low brow music to its growing population but the majority of work performed was from Europe, which supplied most of the cultural influence on the state. All of this was to change, however, with the advent of the twentieth century.

The demographic mix of New Jersey’s larger towns such as Newark included a large number of African American citizens in the early twentieth century. From this background emerged a number of talented musicians who made their mark on the history of jazz in particular.&nbsp.The genre of jazz had its origins in the plantations of the south, from early gospel and soul origins, it gradually spread northwards after the end of the civil war, along with former slaves and their families who headed north to start a new life in the industrial cities there. The first world war caused a boom in many of the manufacturing industries, and the ever-growing workforces prospered greatly during the first twenty years of the twentieth century.