AFRICAN INFLUENCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN MUSIC American popular music has become the most influential in the world. This lesson surveys African musical influences and how they served in major part to create this uniquely American musical form.

Table of Contents Table of Contents African Influence on the American Jazz Idiom Historical Perspective: Jazz Roots from Africa to America (Part 1) Slavery: Harsh Road to the New World

American Jazz Museum American Jazz Museum, 18th and Vine, Jazz, Swing and Bebop Museum and Giftshop

American Federation of Jazz Societies, Inc. A not-for-profit organization dedicated to America's original art form - JAZZ

America's Jazz Heritage Home Page America's Jazz Heritage is a ten-year initiative to research, preserve, and present the history of jazz through exhibitions, performances, recordings, radio, publications, and educational programs at the Smithsonian and across the nation.

American Music Archives Provides historical perspectives, artist biographies, and sound samples of early American music including Jazz, Gospel, Folk and Blues.

Influences: Latin Again, please remember that we're working with generalizations -- Latin music had its strongest influences on American Jazz in the 1950's (cuban) and 1960's (brazilian). If you can tell us more about it, please ...

Early Jazz History This site contains history, quotations, and photos, of Jazz and artist, from New Orleans, from the late 1800's when Jazz began to metamorphis from Rags, Blues, Brass Band Music, and Popular tunes. We have added two pages on Jazz in Chicago, with more to come soon. Try our new navigation bar. We will be including, New York and Kansas City, thru the Big Band or Swing Era of the 1930's and 1940's, all accessed from this page as they are made available. The Origins of Jazz - New Orleans Jazz - New Orleans Artist Index - Jazz in Chicago - Chicago Style

Jazz at Lincoln Center Welcome to the homepage of America's premiere performing arts organization dedicated to the presentation of jazz.

Jazz in America - Jazz Resource Library The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz - National Jazz Curriculum Project

Club Kaycee: Kansas City Jazz History Club Kaycee serves up sights and sounds of the Golden Age of Kansas City Jazz from the Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri - Kansas City, in cooperation with kansascity.com and The Kansas City Star.

New Orleans Jazz EARLY JAZZ HISTORY NEW ORLEANS JAZZ New Orleans was the only place in the New World where slaves were allowed to own drums. VooDoo rituals in Congo Square, the center of VooDoo drumming and dancing in New Orleans, were well attended by the rich and the

New Orleans Music and Music History Site contains topics on, The Origins of Jazz, Jazz in New Orleans, Second Line, and The New Orleans Jazz Century. Also good articles about, Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, and Louis Armstrong.

The American BigBands Database The Largest and Original Big Bands Web site for music fans and collectors. Features photos, midi files, music history, information on booking a band, many links to related sites, and many more features.

The Louisiana Music Archive and Artist Directory A place where everyone can discover the rich heritage of Louisiana musicans, by kind of music or by region, a gret reference for all music lovers.

Tradional Jazz Bands - North America Database of Vintage Jazz Bands on The Internet.

What Is JAZZ? Jazz is America's classical music. In a four part ARTSEDGE lecture series, recorded live at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Dr. Billy Taylor, noted jazz pianist, historian, and educator, shares glimpses of his extensive knowledge of jazz music from its roots in the African-American slavery experience, through the early days of ragtime, and onward through swing, bop, and progressive jazz. Dr. Taylor combines academic research with a wealth of personal knowledge of the music and shares many fascinating anecdotes about the great artists of jazz. He cautions, however, that four hours is only long enough to scratch the surface.