Has african american culture affected american music?

Jazz is a very very wide genre of music that has been evolving for many years. Big band music comes from an era in which jazz had become popular as a dance music. In the 1930's, swing dancers and Lindy-hoppers in the dance halls of America wanted to be able to dance to joyful, up-beat music of a good tempo.

Jazz was the popular genre at the time. The great jazz musicians of the day saw that people wanted something that they could dance to and formed some hard-swinging bigbands to cater for the needs of the young people. Big Band music became the new big thing - many of the older jazz musicians (such as Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines) ended up developing their styles to get with the times and fronted their own big bands.

So essentially, big band music IS jazz. Jazz of the 1930's and 1940's. Listen to Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Bennie Goodman, Artie Shaw, Bob Crosby...these are all incredible jazz musicians who were made the great Big Bands what they were.

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