Ange Rapa

Class 2

The Ragtime Era

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Video Reference

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Beginnings

The Ragtime Era

The Jazz Age Begins

The Jazz Age

Prelude to Swing

The Swing Era Begins

The Swing Era

The Decline

https://www.marist.edu/professional-programs/center-lifetime-study/handouts

Beginnings

1850 1900 1950

Swing

Era

Jazz

Age

Jazz

Ragtime

The Big Band Era

Popular Music Development Society Music

1910 1920 1930 1940

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1850 1900 1950

Swing

Era

Jazz

Age

Jazz

Ragtime

The Big Band Era

Pop Music Development Society Music

1910 1920 1930 1940

Today…

The RagtimeEra

American Popular (Pop) Music

• Based on European traditions• tonal qualities• written, repeatable, predictable

• Popularity determined by :• sheet music and record sales• juke box and radio requests

• Industry established in mid-1800’s in NYC (sheet music publishing) Stephen Foster

(1826 – 1864)

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Ragtime Music

Scott Joplin (1868-1917)

• Syncopated (ragged) • African-American roots • Based on European traditions• Written, published, repeatable

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• Spontaneous improvised music• Rooted in African-American culture (Blues)• Typically played by small groups (4-10)

Jazz

Louis Armstrong

Bix Beiderbecke

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New Orleans

Roots of American Music – 1800s

Popular Music

Jazz

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Ragtime

Birth of Jazz in New Orleans

A Musical city with many

cultures and musical sounds

The Civil War, Reconstruction,

and surplus band instruments

Creole and Black musicians

work together in Storyville

Segregation and Jim Crow

laws come to New Orleans

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Storyville, New Orleans

Buddy Bolden (1877-1931)

Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941)

Hilma Burt’s - Storyville

Sidney Bechet (1897-1959)

Irene and Vernon Castle

Edison CylinderPhonograph

Victor Disk Phonograph(Victrola)

Recording Technology

Nick LaRocca (1889-1961)