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What's Boogie-Woogie? Art: Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43) Escaping to New York after the start of World War II, Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872-1944) delighted in the city's architecture, and, an adept dancer, was fascinated by American jazz, particularly boogie–woogie. He saw the syncopated beat, irreverent approach to melody, and improvisational aesthetic of boogie–woogie as akin to his own "destruction of natural appearance; and construction through continuous opposition of pure means—dynamic rhythm." Bands of stuttering chromatic pulses, paths of red, yellow, and blue interrupted by light gray suggest the city's grid and the movement of traffic, while the staccato vibration of colors evokes the syncopation of jazz and the blinking electric lights of Broadway. Music: Boogie-Woogie Around the beginning of the 20th century, blues, African-American spiritual forms, and ragtime combined and rearranged to develop into jazz. Many different forms popped up in different areas, with cultural center like New Orleans, Chicago, and New York becoming hotbeds of musical creativity. Boogie-woogie, stride, and ragtime piano developed alongside the riffing of Dixieland as jazz prepared to become America's popular music of the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Notable Artists: Buddy Bolden, King Oliver, Sidney Bechet
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