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= Old Vs New in the Jazz Age of Literature =

As the world changed from the old fashion of the 1700's to the 1800's, it is likely that the old fashion views and ways of that people lived back then would change. The change is what we'll be discussing today as it is something very interesting. Throughout this we'll discuss what ways things have changed and what changed exactly.

We'll first start with the change of popular music, and more so the difference between the two. The two bits of music we'll talk about is polka music and the rise of jazz music. Some of you might be wondering what polka music is, and for those who do know that's more power to you, polka music is originally a Czech dance and dance music that grew through Europe and America. Polka music is said to have been originated in the 19th century in Bohemia. Jazz music is something we've heard at least one point in our life as it's very old music and very wide spread in some places. Jazz music was originally a genre of music that was created in the African American communities in New Orleans. It was formed in the late 19th and early 20th century and was a mix of both blues music and ragtime music. Jazz music has now been seen as American classical music throughout the years.

When we think of old school something that generally pops into our mind is people walking around in suits and ties and horse drawn carriages. Horse-drawn carriages were machines that were used in order to carry many passengers or to carry heavy weight in order to transport it from one location to the next. Horse-drawn carriages were huge at the time and were the looking to be the next big thing that lasted forever, which we know they didn't last forever. As we know automobiles came into existence and took over the role that horse-drawn carriages had. Automobiles came into plat in around the 20th century, because in the year 1886 a German inventor by the name of Karl Benz made a patent of his new idea called Benz Patent-Motorwagen. During the early part of the 20th century cars grew to be widely available and sought after. One of the first cars that was widely accepted by the public was the 1908 Ford Model T, which as the name suggests was manufactured by Ford Motor Company. The automobile eventually fully replaced the animal-powered machine and moved onward to the machine power.

Something that we don't to often think about when we think of old school vs new school is language. More specifically how much the English language has changed throughout years if you catch my drift. Throughout the years English has changed so much from its spelling to even the words we use, like we no longer speak as the nobles of old but now we use slang to talk about everything. A good example of how the English language has changed in many ways is how the definition of words has changed throughout the years, such as the word gay. The word gay used to mean, as defined by the definition, as lighthearted and carefree, but nowadays the word gay stands for a homosexual person. That is also just one example of how the English language has changed, we haven't even touched on how different English is compared to what it used to be. Nowadays in English we have new slang we all use such as lowkey and highkey, shook, clap back, and even hangry. These words weren't common use until recently while other words such as too high for his nut, shoddyocracy, and bottom fact were all slang that we don't use anymore.

Thinking about how things changed between the 1800's and the 1900's something that pops into our mind would probably be the change from living life on a rural farm to living in a city. Now during the 1800's many people lived in rural areas in order to one make a living off of farming and selling, and maybe partly because of the farm being passed down through the different generations. Something that helped grow the big cities was a huge surge in population and a leap in innovation and the expansion of different industries. With the population growth and surge in the industries they had to find ways to fit all these people in places, which is what big cities are good for. Something else to take into account is some of the people that accounted for the surge in population were immigrants from around the world who came to America. During the 1800's people did live in cites but a lot of people still lived in rural areas and were focused on agriculture and the like.

The final thing to discuss today is prose and poetry and which one stood the test of time in order to claim it's spot as still relevant as it was back then. Some of you may be asking what prose is, and according to the Merriam Websters Dictionary, prose is defined as "a literary medium distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and its closer correspondence to the patterns of everyday speech". Now most of us already know what poetry is, but in order to get a fair vote the definition of poetry, according to the Merriam Websters Dictionary, is described as "writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm". Now from looking at the definition of them they look quite similar, but looking at our daily life and what we see we often see more poetry than we do prose, right? Well actually prose can be found in a lot of things such as novels, textbooks, and articles. So we can see that both of these have stood throughout history. As we look through what we've just read it seems that prose has over taken poetry in popularity and in common use as most people read more articles than they read poetry. So prose seems to have filled that spot, so just like a March Madness bracket prose has moved on while poetry seems to have dropped out.