Second Post

What was the most interesting to me was that the common stereotypes about African Americans that were used in minstrelsy and jazz music back then still occur and are quite common today. While we think that our perceptions of race have change enormously, we are still suffering from some of the same prejudices from the past. Even though some doors were opened for them during this time, it still proved difficult to move past racial barriers because whites were in control over the actions of blacks (such as not being allowed to read sheet music)

It was eye opening to me to see jazz as a form of rebellion and with many negative connotations because it is seen as old and outdated by many of the youths in the U.S. and old fashioned, in a way, as something as older people would enjoy without taking into consideration what the movement meant as a whole. I had no idea there was so much controversy when it became popular and there are obvious parallels with many other music movements, including hip hop today and how people use hip hop as a scapegoat to push problems of the youth onto.