This Wildly Popular Dance Style Was Know As the " West Coast Swing"
The Style Of Dance Was Known As "The Shimmy"
This Energetic Dance Form Know As "The Strut" With All The Twist And Turns And Fluid Motions.
Musicians Played Mainly Jazz Music With Instruments Such As The Tuba, Banjo, Trumpet, And The Sax.
A new way of playing the piano called the Harlem Stride style was created during the Harlem Renaissance and helped blur the lines between the lower class Negroes and socially higher Negroes.
The traditional jazz band was composed primarily of brass instruments and was considered a symbol of the south but the piano was considered an instrument of the wealthy. With this instrumental modification to the existing genre the wealthy blacks now had more access to jazz music. Its popularity soon spread throughout the country and was consequently at an all-time high.
Innovation and liveliness were important characteristics of performers in the beginnings of jazz. Jazz musicians at the time such as Fats WallerDuke EllingtonJelly Roll Morton and Willie "The Lion" Smith were very talented and competitive and were considered to have laid the foundation for future musicians of their genre.During this period the musical style of blacks was becoming more and more attractive to whites.
many Composers used poems written by African-American poets in their songs, and would implement the rhythms, harmonies and melodies of African-American music such as blues, spirituals, and jazz into their concert pieces. Negroes began to merge with Whites into the classical world of musical composition.