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1910 - 1920 Jazz is born in New Orleans via a combination of black and Creole music. 1920's New Orleans Jazz is the thing and the Jazz Age is born.  1930's Swing is king and this is the only time that Jazz and popular are the same thing. 1940's Bebop is born and is later called simply Bop. 1950's Hard Bop or Funk and Cool Jazz take over. 1960's Modal and Free Jazz find followers.  1970's Jazz fuses with one of its derivatives (Rock) to form Jazz-Rock or Fusion.  1980's Contemporary Jazz age begins. 1990's Hip-Hop and other forms emerge and we now have a Hard Bop revival.

Before 1850 Folk music based on African forms. White dance, band music and Circa. 1850 Plantation songs sung by slaves.  Minstrelsy was white music developed and was meant to copy plantation songs.  During the Civil War Slave Songs of the United States was published by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickford Ware and Lucy McKim Garrison. Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands was published by Lydia Parrish. After the Civil War Prison songs were published.   Late 1800 the Blues develops and was completed by 1910.  During the 1890's Ragtime develops and becomes the most popular music in America between 1900 and 1911. Early 1900's Marching Band music, Ragtime and the Blues fused into early Jazz roots.  

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