Movements around the World Project
For this project I chose the the Jazz Age Movement, I chose this because it seemed very interesting and i have a deep love for music, and my initial movement that I was going to do was not interesting and had no relevance to me or my life. Then one of my fellow classmates told me to try out the Jazz Age and I took that idea and ran with it. I learned alot from this movement, such as how jazz started, the racial prejudices african american musicians went through, and the history and technological advances that occurred around that time that help boost it’s growth and overall love that everyone had for Jazz. I found all of this out from the research I conducted, I researched a lot of things from Racism in the 1920s to the first jazz band. I also researched a lot about what the Jazz Age consisted with. In this project we also did artifacts (images below) and I got the idea to do the artifacts that I chose from me researching. From the numerous hours of research that I did I found popular songs of the 1920s (aka the time period the Jazz Age was happening) and I found one song that was very well-known at the time and from a very well known african american artist named Louis Armstrong. The song was called West End Blues and I decided with that song to draw/write a music sheet for it by hand. I chose to make a music sheet because that’s what they used for playing and reading music and I have always been intrigued with the classical learning of understanding the symbols and shapes that consists of music sheets. It definitely a very interesting and time consuming experience but I loved it and the connection of something like music that I love. The other artifact that I made was a drawing labeled the Jazz Age with 5 instruments which are the same 5 instruments that were part of the first ever jazz band. I got to present those things to my class and vice versa and I learned alot from the presentations that where shown to us in class. One thing that was new that I learned is that there was a rebel group in the civil rights movement that was made up of all african americans called the black panthers. I got to learn about how they benefited the civil rights movement and all of the different events they did like kidnap the president’s daughter with her consent to prove a point. Another presentation that I learned a lot about the Temperance movement and what it was. I learned that the reason that it started was because women at home would get abused from their husbands after they were drinking all night. It also was against some religions as well so the protesting was mostly women, children, and religious people. One other things that we did in ths project was write a research essay and some things I learned from the research writing is that you can go a multitude of ways no matter the essay topic. I learned this by stretching out from the Jazz Age and also write about the technological advancement in the Jazz Age. I believe I will also use that fact for future essays. It was really interesting to learn about the many different things, and learning about some things that went hand to hand with and different things a something has influenced. At the end of our project we got to make the decision of which museum we wanted to go to and the connection to our museum field trip and our project was history, we researched a lot about history and we finished with a field trip to a place that presents and shows historical things (some happened to connect with our movements) The museum I chose to go to was the Museum of Art and I saw a lot of historical paintings way before my time and I saw a lot of cultural things in the museum that went hand to hand with a lot of big things that happened in history for specific countries. Overall with this project I felt very good overall with this project, the presentation, essay, and artifact #1 but I still feel like I could have improved artifact 2 a lot more. I believe this time next year I will still have a lot of information about the Jazz Age from the large quantities of information and facts that I researched and genuinely enjoyed knowing.