The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious ...

Though jazz and classic blues are really early twentieth-century ... when Dan Rice-for the first time in American history-"blacked up" for a variety show in New York's Bowery district. The show became ...

For those of us engaged in trying to understand it, the history of jazz turns out to be much more than a study of this extraordinary American music. Jazz has offered a precise prism through which ...

the jazz they deemed worth discussion—was a white phenomenon, stripped of its African American roots. It would take another decade for the magazine to give equal attention to Black musicians.

Jazz emerged as a new style of music in the early twentieth century in the African American communities of New Orleans. Jazz has its origins in blues and ragtime. Jazz features lots of ...