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2、he peak popularity of modern jazz in the late 1950s. The standard legend about Jazz is that it originated around the end of the 19th century in New Orleans and moved up the Mississippi River to Memphis, St. Louis, and finally to Chicago. It welded together the elements of Ragtime, marching band musi
3、c, and the Blues. However, the influences of what led to those early sounds goes back to tribal African drum beats and European musical structures. Buddy Bolden, a New Orleans barber and cor player, is generally considered to have been the first real Jazz musician, around 1891. What made Jazz signif
4、icantly different from the other earlier forms of music was the use of improvisation. Jazz 托福阅读模拟试题参考 xx年托福阅读模拟试题参考 Jazz has been called the art of expression set to music, and Americas great contribution to music. It has functioned as popular art and enjoyed periods of fairly widespread public resp
5、onse, in the jazz age of the 1920s, in the swing era of the late 1930s and in the peak popularity of modern jazz in the late 1950s. The standard legend about Jazz is that it originated around the end of the 19th century in New Orleans and moved up the Mississippi River to Memphis, St. Louis, and fin
6、ally to Chicago. It welded together the elements of Ragtime, marching band music, and the Blues. However, the influences of what led to those early sounds goes back to tribal African drum beats and European musical structures. Buddy Bolden, a New Orleans barber and cor player, is generally considered to have been the first real Jazz musician, around 1891. What made Jazz significantly different from the other earlier forms of music was the use of improvisation. Jazz
