Look up: Jazz

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   Jazz
   Jazz is a lively type of music which originated in America amongst the black community.
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   Jazz
   Jazz is American tramp slang for 'sexual intercourse'
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   jazz
   [n] - a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles 2. [n] - a style of dance music popular in the 1920s 3. [v] - play something in the style of jazz
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   jazz
   noun a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
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   jazz
   verb play something in the style of jazz
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   Jazz
   `Jazz` is an original American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States out of a confluence of African and European music traditions. The use of blue notes, call-and-response, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swung note of ragtime are characteristics traceable back to jazz's West African pedigree. The origins of the word `jazz,` which wa...
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   Jazz
   (from the article `Matisse, Henri`) ...Florilège des Amours (1948), and Charles d`Orléans` Poèmes (1950). Along with these books in mostly black and white techniques, he published Jazz ...
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   Jazz
   (from the article `African American literature`) ...than allowing slave catchers to return her to slavery in Kentucky, Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988. Four years later, Morrison ... ...of the most important post-World War II American fiction. In The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977), Beloved (198...
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   jazz
   musical form, often improvisational, developed by African Americans and influenced by both European harmonic structure and African rhythms. It was ... [110 related articles]
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    jazz
    jazz, the most significant form of musical expression of African-American culture and arguably the most outstanding contribution the United States has made to the art of music.Sections in this article:IntroductionOrigins of JazzBluesRagtimeNew Orleans JazzSwingBopProgressive JazzRecent TrendsBibliog...
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