Annotated Bibliography
Books and Articles about the effects of Jazz music on society.
Erenberg, Lewis A.. Swingin’ the Dream : Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture. Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press, 1998. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 14 April 2016.
- In this book, Lewis Erenberg explains how jazz music and artists were treated by the society from the beginning of its popularization. He shows the shift among the forms of jazz music to reflect the changes adapted by the society throughout America. From one country it spread to another elevating the status of African Americans internationally.
Hoffman, Dan G.. “The Folk Art of Jazz”. The Antioch Review 5.1 (1945): 110–120. Web…
- This articles extrapolates the use of jazz instruments by African Americans in New Orleans to create music that we now as jazz. It explains the reasons behind the creation of jazz by harmonizing instruments such as saxophones, trumpets, pianos and trombones. Hoffman looks into the society in Africa and suggest possible arguments for African Americans to be able to create such music.
Psychological Effects:
Johnson, Russell L. “‘Disease Is Unrhythmical’: Jazz, Health, and Disability in 1920s America.” Health and History 13.2 (2011): 13-42. Web.
- Russel Johnson presents in his book the evidence collected by the critics claiming that jazz music inflicts negative effects on individual’s health. A part of this article focuses on the state of the society after the World War I when Jazz was spreading very quickly and so was the research on therapeutic views of music. Dr. Johnson provides detailed explanations of the elements and characteristics of jazz music seen as harmful by the therapists and in the health sector.
Repp, Bruno H. “Shaping Time: Music, the Brain, and Performance (Book Review).” Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal 13.4 (1996): 591-604. Web.
- In this journal, Bruno Repp writes about a research where music is played at different rates to record the brain activity. The results show that high tempo has positive effects on the brain.Since, jazz deals with fast tempo it helped the people to perform better.
“1920s.” Dr. Hartnell’s Nutty the A.D.D. Squirrel. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2016.
- The pictures are taken from here. The pictures reflect how jazz music began to change the society through fashion. Pictures are also evidence of integration of different racial cultures enjoying jazz music.