part one Discussion 2 Topics for Discussion 2:(200-250 words) • Describe the ra

part one
Discussion 2
Topics for Discussion 2:(200-250 words)
• Describe the racial and social stratification of New Orleans in the late 1800s and early 1900s. What distinguished Creoles of Color as a unique social class? How did this, and the Plessy vs Ferguson ruling contribute to the emergence of jazz?
Explain the difference between sweet and hot jazz, identifying at least two specific musical characteristics of each style. How were sweet and hot jazz coded in racial terms, and how did they impact the popularization of jazz during the Jazz Age?
Explain how Duke Ellington’s approach to composing and arranging differ from that of Fletcher Henderson, and challenged prevailing ideas about big band jazz. Compare/contrast stylistic elements of both composers, identifying at least two specific musical characteristics of each composer’s style.
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.part two
Listening Journal Forum
Initial (journal entry) post due by Friday
Response posts due by midnight Monday Following the guidelines for the Listening Journal in this week’s module, write one of your eight required journal entries, and post it to this forum by Friday (you can submit this entry as one of the eight entries that are required for Listening Journal 1). Then, submit at least 2 response posts by midnight Monday. In your response posts, provide constructive criticism of your classmate’s journal entries, making suggestions on how they might better address the bullet points for the Listening Journal assignment – especially (since this is the most important aspect of that assignment), how they might better describe how the music unfolds from beginning to end.For this forum, you are required to submit posts on at least two different days, and complete two elements:
1. First, submit your journal entry to the forum by Friday, by copying or typing directly into the Reply box, which you’ll find below these instructions (just beneath the rubric table). Be sure to always click the Post Reply button when you’re done.2. Then submit at least 2 response posts. You’ll find the threaded posts of your classmates by scrolling to the bottom of this page. You can reply to a comment already posted by another student by clicking in the reply field below their post.If you choose to submit more than 2 response posts, you may receive extra credit.