{"id":1460,"date":"2019-11-08T14:29:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2019-11-14T20:16:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:16:26","slug":"blog-6-jazz-music-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/text\/blog-6-jazz-music-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog #6: Jazz Music in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My historical question was originally, “Aside from Federal One projects, how did the arts effect the everyday person in Chicago and New York City, two ethnically diverse cities? Additionally, were these art forms more inclusive and\/or accessible to minority racial groups oppose to Federal One projects?” However, as I started to do my research and find narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, I realized that I had to change my question. I found that I was a lot more interested in specifically jazz music, oppose to the overarching arts. My thought process in choosing the second question was trying to figure out how jazz was received in Chicago. I think it’s natural to think about jazz, plays, ballroom parties, etc. in terms of New York, especially coming out of the height of the Harlem Renaissance. I was interested in whether or not jazz had the same kind of prominence in other big, ethnically diverse cities, like Chicago, or was it overshadowed by the uprising of Folk music?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was worried about finding narratives that would fit my historical question. Most of the narratives seemed to be about the American Slavery experience, not music in their present day. I searched for terms like “music,” “Chicago,” “jazz,” to find the narratives, and made sure they were included in the collection. For the most part, no matter what I searched, I found the same few narratives, but I was able to find enough for the purposes of the Zip drive. Voyant Tools was easy for me to use once I learned how to use some of the visualization mechanisms. I think it was a lot easier to use than some of the other technological sites we’ve used this semester. My favorite tools, and what helped me find answers to my historical question the most, were setting the first block as “Cirrus,” the second block as “Links,” the third block as “Document Terms,” and the bottom right block as “Reader.” In doing this, I could read the narratives and see correlations between words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n