| Jazz is one genre which has changed with the times. | | | | believed in this type of singing used to perform but |
| It has evolved from being a haphazard form to a well | | | | keeping society at bay, in the very margins of the |
| definable delicate category of music. It has originally | | | | same. |
| come out in the world war times when life was really | | | | In fact during the Prohibition that was rampant in the |
| a confusion of sorts with all the bombing going | | | | 1920's jazz started to become a form of protest |
| around and not knowing whether you will live or die. | | | | really because the lyrics of the music became very |
| From then till this day jazz has truly come out a long | | | | decadent and free. Illegal words, and phrases were |
| way. Not only has it changed on the way to | | | | used and often this music was played in the red light |
| modernity but it has also imbibed the best from most | | | | areas of the country. Therefore jazz came to be |
| cultures that it has come across. Is has transformed | | | | related with the decadence that was going around in |
| itself and is now quite different from what it used to | | | | this era. |
| be when it started out as a genre. | | | | However, nothing could stop this music although the |
| In fact it even gave birth to a number of popular | | | | depression that followed in the country did effect |
| genres of this day other than staying alive on its | | | | the then popular form of jazz, the Dixieland jazz, the |
| own. Many people however do not know about the | | | | music of decadence. However, the depression could |
| origin of this song form. People often associate with | | | | not kill off jazz because as soon as everything |
| the white Americans while it is actually the | | | | returned to normal jazz started becoming very |
| development by the African Americans who stay in | | | | popular amongst the young teenagers and the |
| America and have been shipped there as slaves | | | | college goers. Since it was one music which touched |
| during the earlier part of the seventeenth century | | | | the youth therefore it was very difficult to oust the |
| when imperialism was rampant. However, these | | | | genre entirely. Bands began to form and the music |
| people mixed up the southern blues with it to make | | | | started being played all over college campuses. The |
| it the first form that jazz took in those days. | | | | American youth spread their arms wide open for jazz |
| However, it was what the Afro-Americans used to | | | | and accepted this music genre as their own. |
| call "hot jazz". | | | | In a certain way it was a big victory for the dark |
| But as time went on, in the very starting of the | | | | skinned people living in the country because the song |
| twentieth century there was a great resistance born | | | | form was ultimately that of the Africans who had |
| to this form of music and therefore it had to be | | | | originally come to America as slaves, wonders from |
| evolved into something else so that the music form | | | | the East. So, the acceptance of jazz for its musical |
| could survive and was not wiped out exclusively. This | | | | quality by the young white Americans was really an |
| happened because the song form had spread very | | | | adjustment that the old whites had to make and |
| rapidly to Chicago and other parts in the north of the | | | | therefore jazz found its position in the white |
| United States. At these places the bands who | | | | American culture. |