USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Started in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, jazz has its musical roots in New Orleans, Louisiana where it combines American and European classical music with African and slave folk songs with a touch of West African culture.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jazz began in New Orleans in the 1920s as a blending of blues, ragtime, and civic brass band traditions, then this early style of “Hot Jazz” made its way north to Chicago and east to New York in the late 1920s.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is important to note that Classic Blues became very prominent from 1920 after Mamie Smith recorded Crazy Blues and grew in popularity along with jazz. In 1920, Paul Whiteman and his band recorded “Whispering” in New York City, in a subgenre known as symphonic jazz.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jazz music became wildly popular in the “Roaring Twenties, ” a decade that witnessed unprecedented economic growth and prosperity in the United States.

Detailed explanation-5: -The beginning of the jazz music era in America started in the early 1920s after World War I. Americans sought joy from the dark times of the war. Jazz music quickly became popular because of its upbeat tempo and its ability to bring crowds from toe-tapping to learning a new style of dance called the Charleston.