Did jazz during the Harlem renaissance have an effect on our time?
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It definitely did.  Jazz during the Harlem Renaissance is the jazz we know today.  It influenced all the more famous jazz artists like Miles Davis.  The style of Jazz influenced the beginnings of rock as well, which eventually evolved into rock as we know it today.
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No it didn't. When I hear something that sounds like old school funk now it's most often called Neosoul. I love the sound of it & it's coming back more & more. It reminds me of Chaka Khan, the Gap Band, Earth, Wind & Fire, etc.\n\nI have to disagree with you some on rap though. When I was listening to it (back in the day) much of it had some great, dancable music, & carried social & political messages. It was groundbreaking in the urban culture, poetry to music. Much of the rap I hear now is very angry, or over-sexed, & profanity-laced. I miss old school rap, & I love gospel rap (yes it does exist & yes it is tight)!
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Yes actually. When Ben Franklin was arguing with the Creator about his roll in the daily lives of men, he had to excuse himself because of an appointment. That lead to a discussion of time and time keeping, and God said he was partial to the old system where daylight was divided into twelve hours and so was the dark. Anyhow eventually the Lord suggested daylight savings time as a compromise.
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Miles Davis. THis man traanslated raw emotion into sound waves. if you listen to B*****s Brew (a 30 minute song) you are taken on a journey, where he carries you from where you are to somewhere else emotionally and intellectually. Also like Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane, and for newer stuff, some of the members of The Roots (super famous and innovative hip hop group) started a jazz band called The Philadelphia Experiment that is pretty great too.
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Its so refreshing to see I'm not the only one who realizes this! Real soul music has all but diappeared sometime in the 80's,shortly before rock & roll left us too. I got all the good soul from the 50's, 60's 70's. Thats back when there was actual music on the radio!
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check out the protest songs of the 60's, the rise of r&b and black influence on rock and roll, and the hip hop and rap era.  you could just google those topics and type african american culture in the search bar with each of them.
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How about Louis Armstrong? He wasn't born there, but he really triumphed when he moved to Chicago.\n\nAlso, use google and start exploring -- use chicago history music artist as your search term.
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I know a little bit of it.  The Renaissance was a big period of time, so I do not know what information you need.  IM me on one of the following instant messengers:\n\nAIM - pigger186\nYahoo! - knockitoffnow89\nMSN - knockitoffnow89@yahoo.com\n\nOr... email me: knockitoffnow89@yahoo.com
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Like all popular music, it has had good and bad effects.  I worry that too much of it glorifies casual sex and wealth.  But I also know that there are some talented people creating really innovative music.  And there is plenty of truth-telling and uplifting messages, if you look hard enough.\n\nBut those of you who are old enough to flash back 40 years and remember what people were saying about The Beatles and The Rolling Stones should know this is just the same story with a different soundtrack.
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I wasn't gonna answer this question, but the more I thought about it, I figured I may as well.  I think the 80s were.  Well.. no... maybe the 60s.  AW HELL I don't like this question.  I say the 60s for breaking down the racial wall.  (Not that they were fun times, at all, but the strength of those fighting was amazing and did wonders for society today).  But in the 80s we realized that we are a united country that can fight for hunger and sickness. Remember when AIDS came out?? Suddenly musicians took a stand to do more with their money than spend it on parachute pants and cases of hairspray. It was a time when the nation came together with Hands Across America and Live Aid, etc etc etc.  Kids in my school started focusing on world news, instead of highschool ball scores. We had presidents shot at, a Beatle was murdered, space shuttles exploded, Russia toke their finger off the button, gays and lesbians were coming out all over the place and fighting for their equallity.  Microwaves became a household product. Didn't viagra hit the market in the late 80s? lol  It was a year of eye opening things. Maybe not a technological boom, as much as a psychological boom.  Shrinks were less shunned upon. Divorces were no longer taboo. Massive hurricanes hit the coast, and I personally saw neighborhoods becoming one family- taking care of each other like none before.  Limits were being put on music and euthanasia issues hit the scene when a girl named Teri Shaivo was in coma, and her parents wanted to keep her alive, while her husband wanted to pull the plug.  Walls fell in Germany. The 80s really influenced the way I saw the world.  It seemed almost like the decade pulled many countries closer together so our people and their people could hug. I'm not sure what happened in the 90s, and I'm not so sure the 2000-2010 decade will be much better.
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Think about how TECHNOLOGY affected jazz music.  \nFor years, it was all about the 78's.  They were cool & all, but you had 3 1/2 minutes to do your thing.  Then, they invented the LP.  You could have 45 minutes or so, cut in half, to say your piece.  I know that Ellington went nuts!  He was like, "Woo-hoo, I'm gonna create some serious ART!"  It must have blown people's minds.
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The 20th Century was a time of great change.  It was also a time of great turmoil.  World War I, World War II, The holocaust, The invention and use of atomic weapons, The Korean War, The Veitnam Conflict, Civil Rights Riots and Lynchings, The drug culture, The beginning of the Aids epedimic, The wholesale murder of millions of people around the globe in places like South Africa.  The great music and movies of the 20th Century may well have been an artistic attempt to deal with a very unorganized and frightening time in our history.  Many people theorize that great art grows out of turmoil.  I hope and pray that the 21st Century be a time of greater peace.  You are right to say we are not off to a great start.  But even with the tragedy of this war on terror we find ourselves presently in, it does not compare even remotely to the carnage of WW I, or WWII.  I pray it never catches up.  We have an opportunity to build a better world.  Freedom, equality, peace, no more hunger.  Now that would be truly awesome!  It didn't happen in the 20th century.  Will we make it happen in this century?  I hope.
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This question results from the widely (but wrongly) held belief that the arts are the CAUSE of societal behaviors. Sociologists and historians have long been well aware of the FACT that the arts do NOT cause social change -- they merely REFLECT it!\n\nRAP, tatooes, burn scarring, body piercing, violence against women and children, recreational drug use, and all of our other "social ills" are NOT causes, -- they are REFLECTIONS of what is already going on in society!\n\nTo discover CAUSES people must look at what has changed in family structure, child care, work environments, discretionary income, politics, health care, and most of all, the QUALITY OF EDUCATION!\n\nHistory will probably show that this period in American society was riddled with loss of strong moral values, lowered educational expectations, and many other symptoms of the decline of family structure, political integrity, and willingness of the population to accept personal responsibility for individual behaviors.\n\nAnd finally, religion is NOT the answer, -- things like honesty, integrity, reason, social responsibility, logic, and LOVE are! To the extent that religion leads us to these things, it is very useful.
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I think changes in music affect society.
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Jeff A, take off your pointed hood and open your eyes.\nLet's look at it from a bigger picture and ask ourselves a couple of questions.\nWhat percentage of the Global population living under the poverty line is black, asian, colored?\nNo matter how you look at it, there is a corelation between the color of skin and prevalence of poverty.\nNow, slavery and colonialism have various debilitating effects. These effects take a lot of time to heal. Every civilization in the past has at one time or the other had slaves from other conquered cultures e.g Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Nevetheless, in none of these cases has the proportion of slaves to citizens come close to the prevalence of the United States. At the height of slavery in the US, there was 1 african slave for every 4 citizen.\nIn the case of previous civilizations, the negative effects of slavery have been greatly healed by the passage of time. It has been barely a century since slavery was abolished in the US, and just a copule of decades since civil right reforms were implemented in the south. It is over optimistic, to the point of naivette, to assume that societal and racial relations in the US would be normalized after only a copule of decades.\nThis brings to mind a skit in an episode of "Family Guy" where a colonial white man removes the shackles from his african slave and says "Okay, its over now. We're cool, right?".\nIt is understandable that minorities unconsciously feel slighted about the past and wish to strike back. In roman history, an army of escaped and former slaves led the Thracean Spartacus led a bloody revolt against the Roman populace.\nIn modern US society, It is sometimes taken as a subconscious mental victory that it is politically incorrect for a white person to say "Ni99er" while black people can refer to each other that way. These irrelevant mental victories help to heal racial problems in the society.\nBeing born and raised for the first 20 years of my life in a West African country, I have the advantage of being able to look at the US society from an outsiders perspective.\nFor anyone who says that the current US society is racially fair, I ask them to research the average family income for a black, hispanic, asian then caucasian family. Numbers dont lie, but ultimately, time heals all wounds (hopefully).
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a change in the times.  look at basketball\nb
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You have put it splendidly. Those moments with mother, grandmother and very special moments spent with the person you love are absolutely priceless and moment to be treasured. These electronic devices are conveniences and very apologetically are used even for those very people with whom you had those precious moments. These are not lapses but the acceleration of the times we are in. The pace the tempo and the shortening of the times since the advent of the WTC has been very significant. It is noticeable in the immediacy and the urgency which is felt by the higher echelons of the esoteric wrold which seems the contraction of time and the shorening of the time before the advent of the golden age.\n\nIt  is a pity that i have to resort to this very medium to make public what is imminent and now..may be not cancerous but definitely missing the cheese for the chalk you think it is.\n\nThanks for this question which elicits what really IS and COUNTS