The American Industrial Revolution included major changes in technology, manufacturing, agriculture, transport and music. The arts were maintained and enhanced as the economy was improving. Significantly, the history of jazz began in the late 1800s along with the Industrial revolution. Jazz was a type of music that has originated in the United States. Also, jazz music greatly impacted the Industrial Revolution era.
Initially, jazz originated from the Atlantic slave trade that brought Africans from West Africa. The Africans had a strong tribal of musical traditions with them and they started to develop their own music, jazz. The unique rhythm and improvising created the jazz music. The African-American people used instruments such as banjo, piano and violin. Jazz music was often played in a drinking and dancing atmosphere.
Early jazz was developed among African Americans in the 1880s. Then, it was fully developed in New Orleans at the beginning of the 1900s. New Orleans style jazz became known from the city’s own musical traditions and mostly street parades. But now, this type of jazz is called classic jazz, traditional jazz or Dixieland jazz. New Orleans was the musical home of many jazz musicians (Jazz History).
Rapidly, jazz was spread from New Orleans to other states. Many jazz musicians from New Orleans left to spread the great music. Music was seen less as an occupation and more as a calling. Women found more opportunities for musical expression, especially as performers, but social and cultural barriers still limited their participation as musicians.
At the time, home life was centered in the salon or parlor, where children played and learned with adult supervision, and where the family entertained company. Musical performances for small groups of people became popular events, and some jazz musicians were able to support themselves financially by performing in these small venues...