Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Art and Jazz in New York
New York City in the 1960s was the world's center for experimental art. Visual artists, including Bob Thompson, participated in improvisational live art performances called happenings. The freedom of this kind of performance art carried over into the visual arts. Many young artists also adapted the expressive and gestural qualities of ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM (also known as action painting) to FIGURATIVE painting.
New York was also a center for jazz, an improvisational
African-American music that evolved in New Orleans at the
beginning of the 20th century. Jazz drew upon the music of
African slaves and freed people in the United States,
including sacred spirituals and secular work songs, as well
as elements of European music. It evolved out of ragtime and
the blues, also popular music movements of African-American
origin.
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