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1600s through 1860, 10 million Africans with diverse musical tr 1700s, British North American slaves worked in agriculture Founded in 1718, in French New Orleans; traveling minstrel show 1890s, primary inventors of early jazz in New Orleans 1830s, "Jump Jim Crow" minstrel shows, ridiculing black people First exposure of white America to spirituals and work songs of Parades, funeral marches Spirituals Slave work songs 1900s, riverboats and the sale of sheet music Ragtime Blues WWI, Harlem and the Army's 369th black regiment, the "Harlem He 1920s Prohibition fueled popularity of Harlem nightclubs swing music Early 1940s NYC: 1950s Beat Generation East Coast Hard Bop: jazz+blues West Coast mellow jazz Boogie Woogie rhythm & blues Rock & Roll 1960s Soul Jazz from the Black Power movement Free Jazz country music Avant Garde jazz, linking old forms with new Fusion jazz, with electronics and free form Big Band Music Funk Modern New Orleans Modern Era Traditional Dixieland, preservation Hall Cajun Zydeco Music Soul Modern Blues Modern Spirituals 1600s 1700s 1800s Early 1900s 1920s 1930s 1940s Jazz Origins & History