In general the origin of jazz was believed to have started in New Orleans before it spread to Chicago and then on to Kansas City then to New York City and finally the West Coast area. Both the vocals and the instrumental sides of the blues are known to be essential components that we can still predominantly see in this music genre today. There have been and there still are many types of the genre and this was all started with the ragtime that officially started in New Orleans or what is also known as the Dixieland jazz. Then after this there came the swing jazz which was also known as the bop or bebop. Cool or progressive jazz followed thereafter which was also then succeeded by the hard bop or the neo-bop.

Then there was the third stream and the mainstream modern and the jazz type that a lot of people like to dance, which is the Latin jazz. Of course rock and roll also made its influence on this music genre with the coming out of the jazz rock which was followed lastly by the avant-garde or what is commonly known as the free jazz.

The origin of jazz actually started out in the later years of the 19th century and this was derived from the work songs of the blacks, their sorrow songs, their field shouts, their hymns and their spiritual songs the melodic rhythmic and harmonic elements of which were seen to have been dominated by African influence. However because it was seen as a music genre that was improvisational emotional and spontaneous in nature and because it was mainly associated with the blacks jazz did not garner the level of recognition that it deserved.

It was the European audiences that showed warmer reception to jazz making the jazz musicians of America go to this country to work on their trade. Jazz only gained a wider audience when adaptations or imitations of it were made by white orchestras. It was in the later part of the 1930's when it was known to have become a legitimate entertainment and this was when Benny Goodman initiated concerts at the Carnegie hall of groups having mixed racial origins.

Rap music has stampeded through America like no other form of music since the creation of rock music in the 1960s. Like other popular styles, it has a history that is closely aligned with the rebellious attitude of its young creators; youth who rejected the contemporary music prevalent during the late 1970s. Rap music is not a novelty, as many music professionals thought, but has a beginning as equal to blues, jazz, r&b, rock & roll, or any form of popular music.

There is a slight dispute regarding the actual place of origin. According to Afrika Bambaataa: A lot of people always think it rap started in the South Bronx, but officially it came from the West Bronx, ‘cause Kool Herc credited with being the first rapper, was from that area. Then it came over to the South Bronx with myself and Grandmaster Flash.

The story of rap music has a clear and concise beginning. We will explore that beginning with one of the main personalities in rap, Russell Simmons, who is considered the godfather of rap. Mr. Simmons explains: I think it was a lot of kids rebelling against dance music, disco music. I think in the 70s it was an industry music, producers’ music, and made for the people by producers who decided what people should have. Rap music was a rebellion by the people to assert what they were really looking for and they weren’t getting it from the producers. The producers and their companies were too far away from the streets. The people just created something for themselves.

"Many years there wasn’t any rap records, but there were a lot of rap shows. You go to a show and you had some rock beat or some jazz beat or some old funk beat and this guy rapping all night. Two or three thousand kids would be at these parties and listen all night. You wouldn’t have one commercial record. You wouldn’t hear, for instance, Patrick Juvette,I Love America. You wouldn’t hear YMCA, and whatever records were out at the time throughout the whole night. Those are the records you had to hear on Black radio. So kids made their own music.

At the inception of rap, music professionals did not take it seriously and music scholars dismissed it completely. Little did they know that what the youth were creating represented a revolution in music, and like it or not, without rap music today, the music industry would be in a financial depression and hundreds of industry employees would be laid off, as they were in the late 1970s.

20th century music

There is no distinct transition between the romantic and 20th century music periods. They were both musical movements that broke away from many of the previous traditional ideals. Both stressed emotion and depth, and focussed on the composer's individual feelings and interpretations. For simplicity the 20th century style music is generally regarded as starting in the decade preceding the First World War. This was a time when composers began trying to experiment with the usage of the musical language. The focus of many composers was on 'liberation of sound', the right to make music with any sounds, whether pleasurable or not. As the romantic composers emphasized the composer's emotions and individuality, the 20th century composers found new ways using music to represent things. The onset of worldwide war and political and social unrest was a trigger that encouraged composers to find new and different ways to express themselves. The tonal system was to undergo the biggest change through this period of time. Unlike romantic composers, 20th century people did not look for clear, pleasing, and lyrical melodies. Instead, they almost totally abandoned the old tonal system and used all 12 tones to crea

Animation Throughout the 20th Century Animation has proven to have an irresistible magic that has been a major part of the film industry since its very primitive times in the early twentieth century. The ability to make still pictures seem to move and have a character of their own has fascinated artists so much that they have sought to improve and master the art of animation. It has not only inspired people of all ages but enhanced their lives in a way of seeing a whole different world of animation, make believe and to see things that cannot happen in real life. The skills of animation have improved so much throughout the twentieth century from the way the animation is drawn to the technology used to tell a story in moving pictures. In early animation, motion was captured by drawing frame by frame, tediously perfecting each drawing to look as if it were moving. Film was usually black and white in early times and was later in color, mostly in Disney cartoons and films such as Fantasia. Such films were made around the 1950s when most films, live action and animated were still black and white. Disney was one of the more advanced entertainment industries followed by Warner Brothers.

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