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Chapter 5
The Birth of an American Music:
Jazz into the 1920s
In This Chapter
� Seeing the creation of jazz in New Orleans
� Meeting Buddy Bolden and other early musicians
� Making time for ragtime
� Recording the first jazz and moving jazz to Chicago
� Introducing white players
In this chapter, I tell you the details of the birth of jazz in New Orleans, the
influence of ragtime on early jazz, and the growth of Chicago as the center
of jazz in the 1920s. You also meet a few of the earliest (and most influential)
musicians of jazz.
Blending the Ingredients
of Jazz in New Orleans
Waves of change swept America between the Civil War and the turn of the
century. Agriculture and rural life gave way to industry and urbanization.
With the end of the war and slavery, many African Americans moved to the
big cities.
Life was simpler then. Riverboats, horse-drawn carriages, and gas lamps
hadn’t been replaced by automobiles, airplanes, and electricity. While some
American cities wrestled with a new multicultural identity, New Orleans was
more accepting of ethnic diversity due to its early history under French and