Jazz Final

Associated with white musicians in CA

• Indistinguishable from Bebop, hard-swinging and syncopated rhythms, a blues basis, experimentation with the meter, long solos.
• It was the direct opposite of Cool Jazz.

Capable of playing all extant Jazz styles, used pianistic approach, and used conversational approach.

Aimed at dissolving racially segregated facilities in the south and restoring suffrage to southern blacks.

Overturned Plessy v. Furguson. Ruled segregated schools unconstitutional.

Sued to enter the University of Mississippi. He won suit but Mississippi Governor Barnette blocked his admittance. President Kennedy showed up with Marshals and turned the campus into a riot zone.

Faubus (Governor of Arkansas) prevented desegregation. He prevented nine black students from entering a white school.

Banned segregation in employment practices, public places, and schools.

Banned discriminatory practices leading to disenfranchisement.

Abolished immigration quotas that had been in place since 1924.

Prohibiting sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, or national origin; later described to gender, the physically disabled, and families with children.

Jazz musicians preformed at benefit concerts, recorded albums with political themes, attributed political meanings to some aesthetics, explored African and non-American/non-European musical and religious ideas, and engaged in highly dialogues about races and racism in the Jazz industry.

It fostered a sense of community, and maintain/promote a separate black identify. Linked to Black nationalism partly from the racial politics of some practitioners and advocates, as well as the explosive/expressionistic nature of the music.

Aimed to gain equality for all no matter what race, religion, etc.