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cultural significance that goes beyond its musical qualities. Here are some of the ways jazz has influenced American culture:
- Jazz breaks down barriers and creates opportunities for mutual understanding and tolerance.
- Jazz is a vector of freedom of expression.
- Jazz is a symbol of unity and peace.
- Jazz reduces tensions between individuals, groups, and communities.
- Jazz fosters gender equality.
- Jazz reinforces the role youth play for social change.
- Jazz has become accepted as a living expression of the nation’s history and culture.
- Jazz has produced (and been produced by) an extraordinary progression of talented artists.
- Jazz seeped into nearly every aspect of American culture in the 1920s, influencing everything from fashion and poetry to the Civil Rights movement.
,Jazz breaks down barriers and creates opportunities for mutual understanding and tolerance; Jazz is a vector of freedom of expression; Jazz is a
symbol of unity and peace; Jazz reduces tensions between individuals, groups, and communities; Jazz fosters gender equality; Jazz reinforces the role youth play for social change;Often acclaimed as
America’s greatest art form, jazz has become accepted as a living expression of the nation’s history and culture, still youthful, difficult to define and impossible to contain, a music of beauty, sensitivity, and brilliance that has produced (and been produced by) an extraordinary progression of talented artists.
Throughout the 1920s, jazz seeped into nearly every aspect of American culture. Everything from fashion and poetry to the Civil Rights movement was touched by its influence. The style of clothing changed to make it easier to dance along to jazz tunes. Even poetry evolved as a result of jazz, with jazz poetry becoming an emerging genre in the era.
The music of Grenada has included the work of several major musicians, including Eddie Bullen, David Emmanuel, one of the best-selling reggae performers ever, and Mighty Sparrow, a calypsonian.
The island is also known for jazz, most notably including Eddie Bullen, a pianist, songwriter and record producer currently residing in Canada.
Kingsley Etienne, a keyboardist, while the Grenadan-American Joe Country & the Islanders have made a name in country music.