Jazz Impact

The Jazz Revolution by Kathy J. Ogren (1989) looks at the impact of jazz music on popular music in society, seeking to clarify the cultural significance of jazz music and exploring the jazz controversy of the 1920s. Ogren suggests that jazz music was significantly impacted by the migration of African Americans from the south , to the north in the 1920s. Thus this migration hastened the growth of blues and jazz music in areas such as Harlem. Ogren explains the role of African American music, by that of “ it spoke to the unique experiences of black Americans, becoming the dominant influence on American popular music”(11). Jazz music like that of music created by African Americans can be linked to African and slave music, which is transformed “…into powerful settings, especially in the industrial cities of the north”, and aided in defining blacks in American society. Orgen suggests that early jazz developed through “… participatory performance traditions that began in A...