Discussion Jazz has its organic roots deep in the African-American work songs and spirituals all the way back to the days after the end of slavery. As Lamont Pearly Sr. writes in Black Perspectives, blues as a musical form does not arise from the slavery itself, but from the freedom African-Americans had after slavery. From the 1860s on through the 1910s, the style and form of these songs morphed with the addition of new instruments, such as the saxophone, into blues and then into jazz. Fascinatingly, while blues has an etymology of feeling down, or sick, or depressed, jazz is originally a slang for pep or energy. Female artists also contributed quite a lot more to jazz and blues, in comparison to classical. I try to highlight female composers in classical, but for a lot of the repertoire, it is very male dominated. However, in jazz and blues, African American women were fairly equal to the men in their contributions and their acceptance. The
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Discussion Jazz has its organic roots deep in the African-American work songs and spirituals all the way back to the days after the end of slavery. As Lamont Pearly Sr. writes in Black Perspectives, blues as a musical form does not arise from the slavery itself, but from the freedom African-Americans had after slavery. From the 1860s on through the 1910s, the style and form of these songs morphed with the addition of new instruments, such as the saxophone, into blues and then into jazz. Fascinatingly, while blues has an etymology of feeling down, or sick, or depressed, jazz is originally a slang for pep or energy. Female artists also contributed quite a lot more to jazz and blues, in comparison to classical. I try to highlight female composers in classical, but for a lot of the repertoire, it is very male dominated. However, in jazz and blues, African American women were fairly equal to the men in their contributions and their acceptance. The