What is Jazz (Section 1)

Jazz was born in

• Africa

• Europe

• the United States

• Japan

Jazz first appeared in the city of

• New York

• Chicago

• Kansas City

• New Orleans

Jazz first appeared in the

• 1700s

• early 1800s

• early 1900s

• 1940s

Which of the following did NOT eventually lead to the creation of Jazz?

• Rock

• Slave Work Songs

• Blues

• Spirituals

The primary creators of jazz were

• Africans

• Europeans

• African Americans

• European Americans

Today Jazz is

• played and listened to primarily by African Americans

• played and listened to by people all over the world

• respected more in the United States than in Europe

• no appreciated by people outside the United States

Jazz is music that is

• planned

• sponatneous

• partly planned and partly spontaneous

• neither planned or spontaneous

Improvisation is

• inventing and doing something on the spur of the moment

• following a prepared script

• reading music

• following a prepared musical score

Jazz is a metaphoric example of

• Socialism

• Democracy

• Fascism

• Communism

An example of improvisation is

• reading music

• playing symphonic music

• reading a speech

• conversation