Writing Homework Help
AIU American Literature Jazz Discussion
Listen to one of the following pieces of music (or use them all):
Duke Ellington – Caravan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkLBSLxo5LE
Duke Ellington – Mood Indigo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZyVBVFnrm4
Louis Armstrong – West End Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPCBieSESI
Louis Armstrong – Now You Has Jazz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPP4jrarsYU
Louis Armstrong – High Society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtfxSAnOgoU
Sarah Vaughan – Black Coffee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=222UoHUCR0o
Okay this isn’t the right time period, but this is my favorite cover of Black Coffee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl3s21p19Ss
Write a FICTIONAL STORY on what you see in the music. Music tells a story when we listen to it, so what is your story when you hear the music. Remember we’re in between the world wars, there’s the Great Depression, Reconstruction in the South. Jazz becomes a huge part of how the Harlem and Chicago Renaissance develops (we’ll see this again with the Beat Generation). So let’s see how music influences writing. So what little mind movie do you see when you listen to the music? Write that in story form.
