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Unit 14 Early American Jazz 外语系07级本四班：陈彬（10）,秦芳（11）,张巧娟（12） Teaching aims: To enable students to learn about early American Jazz Teaching focus : the history and development of jazz Teaching difficulties : Jazz music, New Orleans jazz , Louis Armstrong , Ragtime music , Count Basie , Boogie Woogie Teaching aids: Multi---media Teaching periods : Three periods Stages and procedures : Stage 1 Introduction Definition: 1 Jazz is the irrepressible expression of freedom and individual rights through musicalimprovisation . 2 It is a way people express themselves and their emotions by means of music. 3 It is a music built on individualism and compromise ,independence and cooperation. In any event ,the emphasis on free invention and the development of individual ways of playing instruments appealed to themes in American culture . The individual sound and style can be attributed to all the great jazz musicians .Perhaps this identification of the individual player appeals to those American values that stress the importance of the distinctive and different individual . Stage 2 Early New Orleans Jazz Origin of New Orleans Jazz : 1 At the end of the nineteenth century in America ,folk music could be found in every state and territory . 2 It was in New Orleans that a new blend of folk music ,work chants , spirituals ,marches, and even European classical muisc ,blended together in the form known as jazz. The features of New Orleans Jazz : 1 It was an ensemble of musicians improvising their notes in changing chords around a special melodic line. 2 It is a community effort with a high degree of individualism. 3 It was also identified by its polyrhythmic structure ,a clear contribution from the complex drumming of West Africa brought over to American by black slaves . The instruments of jazz 1 Percussion instruments included the cymbal ,bells,hollow wooden blocks ,chimes ,and so forth . 2 Another percussion instruments was the banjo , a common folk music instrument . The types