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Where was the jazz music started?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Jazz as a musical art form originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States , merging African and European musical traditions. The word jazz began as a West Coast slang term of uncertain derivation around 1912, the meaning of which varied but which did not refer to music or sex. It was first used to refer to music in Chicago in about 1915. Jazz was played in New Orleans prior to that time but was not called jazz.

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