Type of Submission
Podium Presentation
Keywords
Jazz, women, music, vocal, instrumental, history, race
Abstract
Female jazz vocalists, both as soloists and in groups, and instrumentalists, both as solo artists and in ensembles, of the jazz era influenced music and society in their own times and in later times. They added new musical concepts, added new vocal styles, worked to change the society they lived in, and worked hard to find their place in music no matter what got in their way, making them inspirations for future generations of women striving to succeed in the world. This paper looks at how these women of jazz influenced music, society, and future generations of women through their journeys through life and the mark they left on jazz music. This is done by looking at various artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Florence Mills, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, and at various bands and instrumentalists of past and present.
Campus Venue
Stevens Student Center, Room 246
Location
Cedarville, OH
Start Date
4-20-2016 3:00 PM
End Date
4-20-2016 3:20 PM
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
PowerPoint
Swing It Sister: The Influence of Female Jazz Musicians on Music and Society
Cedarville, OH
Female jazz vocalists, both as soloists and in groups, and instrumentalists, both as solo artists and in ensembles, of the jazz era influenced music and society in their own times and in later times. They added new musical concepts, added new vocal styles, worked to change the society they lived in, and worked hard to find their place in music no matter what got in their way, making them inspirations for future generations of women striving to succeed in the world. This paper looks at how these women of jazz influenced music, society, and future generations of women through their journeys through life and the mark they left on jazz music. This is done by looking at various artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Florence Mills, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, and at various bands and instrumentalists of past and present.
