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- Discuss the history & cultural relevance of
Swing Music
- Identify a 12 bar Blues (in Dm)
- Improvise a 12 bar Blues solo!


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Stage Antics
Glenn Miller Standing in front of the band
Different Instruments
Dinner Party
Anything strike you as odd?

White vs. Black

- Jazz seen as Black music
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Has its roots in New Orleans

- Which has its roots in Slavery

- However, Glenn Miller and other white

artists played the music for white crowds
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Becomes socially acceptable for white people to

listen to black music

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- Whites listen to black music, but only by
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White musicians play in nice dance halls and for

privileged crowds
Black musicians play in smaller, dingy, and less
prestigious locations

- Black musicians believe their music is being

diluted by white artists copying them

Duke Ellington
- Exception to the rule!
- Bridge between black and white crowds
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Became famous in America from Cotton Club

residency
- Club still segregated (black wait staff, white
patrons)
- Weekly radio broadcasts popularized The Duke
within households (black and white) across the
country


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