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Jazz

Joe "King" Oliver

1885-1938
King Oliver's Jazz Band
Famous songs:Riverside Blues,Sobbin' Blues

Louis Armstrong

1901-1971
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
Famous songs:What A Wonderful World, When The Saints Go Marching In

Jelly Roll Morton

1890-1941
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Pepers
Famous songs:Crazy Chords,Doctor Jazz

Jazz: American music developed especially from ragtime and blues and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, and often deliberate distortions of pitch and timbre.(JazzAboutOurDefinitions)

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Jelly Roll Morton

Louis Armstrong

Joe "King" Oliver

Famous Jazz Musicians

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Famous Songs of the 1920s

Top 5 songs:

1.)Swanee by Al Jolson

2.)West End Blues by Louis Armstrong

3.)Rhapsody in Blue by Paul Whiteman featuring George Gershwin

4.)Ain't Misbehavin' by Fats Waller/ Louis Armstrong

5.)T For Texas (Blue Yodel #1) by Jimmie Rodgers

Paul Whiteman

Al Jolson

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Dance

Modern Ballroom- formal
1920: "Lindy Hop" -Charles Lindenbergh
"Boogie Woogie"
Swing Jazz
1929: Quicktime Foxtrot and Charleston- "Quickstep"
1930: Waltz, Tango, Foxtrot
1931: Rhumba- Cuban to suit
Western States
1938: Mambo- from Cuba

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Famous Dancers/Dancing Songs

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson - Tap Dancer
Dame Ninette de Valois - Ballet
Michel Fokine - Ballet
Remarkable Girl by Ted Weems
Happy Days are Here Again by Ben Selvin
What Do I Care What Somebody Said? by Jan Garber

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DDD, and Bruce. "100 Greatest Popular Songs of the 1920s." 100 Greatest Popular Songs of the 1920s. Digitaldreamdoor, 8 Dec. 2009. Web. 13 Mar. 2013.

"1920's Dancing." 1920's Dancing. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Mar. 2013.

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