Ch. 34 Between the World Wars: Jazz and Popular Music

  • Between the wars

    • new warfare technologies produced huge losses

    • disease

    • music and entertainment as escape

    • new nations and ideologies

  • economy

    • europe = war debt, US and Canada = economic boom

      • golden age for music in american (popular and classical)

    • new york stock market crash (1920s), depression

  • roles for women

    • workforce in war

    • new freedom of movement and economic independence

    • birth control and rising access to education and careers

  • the great migration

    • black people moved from south to north

      • worked in factories ad service industries

    • stimulated the harlem renaissance

  • the arts

    • 1920s, lots of experimentation, new techniques, surrealism/unconsciousness, simple and modern

    • 1930s, reexamining the role of artist, also simple but modern

  • Rhythm changes= harmonic progression of the rhythm

  • tin pan alley style: chorus = 13 measures consistent of 8 bar chunks that you could label a a b a (b = bridge)

    • scale degrees 3 5 7 flattended = blue (scale) notes