ABSTRACT
Jazz was born in New Orleans, United States, during the first quarter of the 20th century. This Afro-diasporic origin genre became a haunting success and a musical symbol of modernity. It traveled through the networks connecting symbolic goods throughout Europe and the Americas until reaching Brazil. The first aim of the present article is to draw some notes on jazz rise in the United States; therefore, the goal is to map and discuss when and how this new sonority settled in terra brasilis. It also intends to focus on Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, for these cities hosted the lively jazz-bands scene in the 1920s.
KEYWORDS:
jazz; music; blackness