USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -There is nothing so uniquely American as jazz music. In its simplest form, jazz embodies the essence of the American people: bold and inventive.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ragtime, a uniquely American, syncopated musical phenomenon, has been a strong presence in musical composition, entertainment, and scholarship for over a century. It emerged in its published form during the mid-1890s and quickly spread across the continent via published compositions.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is a main characteristic of jazz music? Jazz artists use improvisation in their performances. In the postwar era, the increased availability and affordability of cars most facilitated which social change?

Detailed explanation-4: -What musical characteristic of the spiritual directly influenced jazz? the overall chord progression is always the same and each twelve-bar cycle is called a chorus only. was established as early as the 1840s and reinforced many degrading stereotypes of African Americans only.