Historical context of Jazz dance

Task one 

•  Slaves first started travelling from Africa to America in the 16th to the 19th century in the year 1526. The main reason that slaves travelled from Africa to America was because they were forced into the slave trade. 

•  Music and dance culture of the African slaves that of the white plantation owners as they used music and dance as it helped them take their mind of things whilst they were working they felt as if they sung and danced there way through the day it would go a lot quicker. They both used to use music by telling stories mainly about their work and their past lives. 

• The music and dance of the African origin formed a starting point for Jazz music and dance as they both can be seen in the close relationship between body movement and moves. Jazz dance is very rhythmic and your likely to move to it in a very rhythmically way similar to how African origin danced. They did this as its a patterning of the human body in time and space in order to give expression to ideas and emotions. 

• In the 20th century Jazz dance started to develop more the music was rhythmic, overtime however different sub categories of Jazz evolved into less danceable music such as cool Jazz, free Jazz and the tempo became too fast or too slow. 

• Jazz is a music genre that originated in the New Orleans United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century and developed the genre.