Jazz and Modernism

Harlem Renaissance and modernism are closely interconnected to each other. For instance, jazz music, part of Harlem Renaissance, creates modernistic mood. It is created in late 1800’s, and the music expresses African Americans’ feelings. Unlike to other music, the sounds are discordant and casual, which are related to nonlinear fashion. In addition, Jazz music demonstrates the revolting attitude. During that period, there was discrimination between white people and African Americans, and therefore, they would feel suppression toward white people. These repressed feelings are mixed in the jazz music. This is the reason why the jazz music represents eagerness of freedom and systemless expression, that it is correlated to the element of modernism: questioning the power.