Class 2 The Ragtime Era Ange Rapa Program
Class Topic 1 Beginnings 2 The Ragtime Era 3 The Jazz Age Begins 4 The Jazz Age 5 Prelude to Swing 6 The Swing Era Begins 7 The Swing Era 8 The Decline
Video Reference https://www.marist.edu/professional-programs/center-lifetime-study/handouts Last week…
The Big Band Era
Jazz Swing Age Era Beginnings Jazz
Ragtime
Popular Music Development Society Music
1850 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 Today…
The Big Band Era
The Ragtime Era Jazz Swing Age Era
Jazz
Ragtime
Pop Music Development Society Music
1850 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 Review… 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) Review… Ragtime Music • Syncopated (ragged) • African-American roots • Based on European traditions • Written, published, repeatable
Scott Joplin (1868-1917) Review… Jazz • Spontaneous improvised music • Rooted in African-American culture (Blues) • Typically played by small groups (4-10)
Louis Armstrong
Bix Beiderbecke Review… Roots of American Music – 1800s
Popular Music
Ragtime
New Orleans Jazz Review… Birth of Jazz in New Orleans A Musical city with many cultures and musical sounds The Civil War, Reconstruction, and surplus band instruments Segregation and Jim Crow laws come to New Orleans Creole and Black musicians work together in Storyville Storyville, New Orleans Buddy Bolden (1877-1931)
Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941) Hilma Burt’s - Storyville
Sidney Bechet (1897-1959)
Irene and Vernon Castle
Recording Technology
Edison Cylinder Victor Disk Phonograph Phonograph (Victrola)
Nick LaRocca (1889-1961)