Divining Jazz
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- John Salmon, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Yes, jazz was born in some raunchy
places. Brothels, gin joints,
speakeasies, and clubs of the early
decades of the twentieth century - in New
Orleans, Kansas City, Chicago, New York,
and everywhere in between - became the
breeding ground from which the sultry,
sassy musical language known as Jazz
first thrived. Its first practitioners
were Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll
Morton Fats Waller and others. They
created' music whose titles and lyrics,
laden with sexual innuendo ("Big
Butter and Egg Man," "Struttin' with
Some Barbecue") and irreverence ("Your
Feet's Too Big: "Dead Man Blues") might
have made our Victorian grandparents
blush had they been hip to the lingo.
Divining Jazz
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Muse and Spirit Sp/Su 2002
- Language: English
- Date: 2002
- Keywords
- Jazz, History, Retrospective, Duke Ellingon, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Counter culture