a musician was paid $1.00 for riding on a truck and playing for fivehours, $2.50 if he played a ball, from 8 p.m. until 4 a.m., with onehour intermission. House parties paid $1.50 to $2.00 and you playedabout five hours—8 p.m. to 1 a.m., or 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
I wonder how inflation would make these things worth today
French-speaking Creoles into New Orleans.
what other languages did they speak?
in New Or-leans during the early jazz years. He cites figures showing that “in1870, among the city’s 40,000 blacks, only 7 listed their major occu-pation as musician in the census survey. This compared to 177 blackpolicemen, 397 cigarmakers, and 249 shoemakers. Ten years later thenumber of black musicians rose to only 53.”
This is a very important time in history as it really shows how black people were overlooked in all aspects of life. Including in musical history as in the music realm many black people did not take on musical aspiration. Which is wild to me as in current day there are a bunch of musical legends and icons who are indeed black and they make amazing music. As well as inspirations to us so it really shows how black culture and combining it with music came a long way. Now tons of black people aspire to be musical artists..
Since the late 1910s, jazz became a pervasive phenomenon on a global scale. Notwithstandingthe popular appeal of the various musics and dances associated in one way or another with the‘jazz’ label, the widespread dissemination of jazz was contingent upon the political power andvisibility of the United States at the time. As Frederick Schenker eloquently puts it, the USempire was a force of domination as well as ‘a medium of possibility in the production of mul-tiple social forums and fields’, jazz included.81 Rather than something created exclusively inthe United States and then exported to the world, jazz sprouted out of Afrodiasporic culturalnetworks that extended through various nodes across the Gulf of Mexico and the northernCaribbean.
It is very inspiring to see how Jazz come up and developed over time as a genre. In its early stages seen nearly as an exclusively American tune. A tune that was very simple to listen to and to enjoy in the late 1800s and early 1900s. How it developed overtime as a music enjoyer was very relieving how it spread throughout the Americas and Caribbean as it is now a staple in most cultural tunes nowadays and an inspiration to modern artists ranging from pop to hip hop. Jazz becoming international is really a monumental shift in history and is the reason why me, along with other people in my community can enjoy it in 2025.