1920S Jazz
The 1920’s was a big era for new music. Jazz became very popular and it was the beginning of the country music industry. The twenties are often called the Roaring Twenties for its cultural, social, and artistic qualities.
In the mid-1920’s Jazz became really popular and began playing all over, in roadhouses, dancehalls and speakeasies which is a place where they would illegally sell alcohol. Marching bands and Dance bands were the main form of popular concert music and that was how early jazz influences found their first music expression.
In the early 1920’s Chicago had great opportunities for musicians. Chicago was full of gangsters and their dance clubs and their cabarets. The New Orleans sound spread throughout Chicago but the jazz played in Chicago was less wild and more uniform than it was in Louisiana. Jazz soon became known as the “polite” music and was directed toward white, middle class audiences who often went to dance halls.
As Jazz music became more popular with white people the dance halls became segregated. The jazz music in the “Negro” clubs was more faster and wilder compared to the music played in white dance halls, but the jazz in the “negro’ clubs was still more calmer than the jazz in New Orleans.
Kansas city was soon exploding with jazz music., it could be heard everywhere you turned. Kansas city was segregated, African American musicians were in high demand in clubs and dance calls, and African American jazz clubs. There were even fifty jazz clubs in one six block district. Benny Moten one of the famous early jazz musicians was very much responsible for the spread of jazz music in Kansas City.
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New Orleans became the center for jazz, with clubs showing up everywhere. Black people that played jazz were not allowed in theses clubs and had to go to lower establishments where they were allowed to play.
1923 was the beginning of the country music recording industry. Emest Thompson was one of the first country music artists....
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