the historical context of jazz dance

 task one -

1-slaves first started traveling from Africa to America in the 16th to 19th century in the year 1526,the main reason that slaves travelled from Africa all the way to America was because they where forced into the slave trade.

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

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

4-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 become too fast or too slow.

5-jazz is a music genre that originated in the new Orleans united states the late 19th and early 20th centuries and developed the genre.