BL ST 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lizabeth Cohen, Louis Armstrong, Alain Leroy Locke
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1/26 oliver, armstrong and the chicago sanctuary of jazz modern city space based on black aesthetics. Diaspora - jewish from palestine to all parts of the world diaspora - out of africa form of migration element of force circulation of people, goods. South north rural / small cities large cities. 1920-1930: 60,000 negroes migrated from the south to chicago push pull theory jim crow v. better money. Black people move to n city in order to configure a space that will enhance and support their subjectivity. Historian, lizabeth cohen, claim that chicago was the jazz capital of the nation for much of the 1920s . New orleans born musicians flourished in chicago during the 1920s. Creole jazz band had become the most creative and influential jazz unit of its time . Immigrants from european: but sizeable number of african americans.
