Writing Homework Help

Listen to one of the following pieces of music (or use them all):

Duke Ellington – Caravan:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkLBSLxo5LE

Duke Ellington – Mood Indigo:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZyVBVFnrm4

Louis Armstrong – West End Blues:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPCBieSESI

Louis Armstrong – Now You Has Jazz:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPP4jrarsYU

Louis Armstrong – High Society:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtfxSAnOgoU

Sarah Vaughan – Black Coffee:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=222UoHUCR0o

Okay this isn’t the right time period, but this is my favorite cover of Black Coffee:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl3s21p19Ss

Write a FICTIONAL STORY on what you see in the music. Music tells a story when we listen to it, so what is your story when you hear the music. Remember we’re in between the world wars, there’s the Great Depression, Reconstruction in the South. Jazz becomes a huge part of how the Harlem and Chicago Renaissance develops (we’ll see this again with the Beat Generation). So let’s see how music influences writing. So what little mind movie do you see when you listen to the music? Write that in story form.