Shadowing Practice: Basic Ielts Listening - 61 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Exercise 9 Music in New Orleans Listen to the conversation and fill in the missing information in the notes below.
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Hi, Mike.
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Do you like jazz?
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Yes, very much.
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And I like to dance to jazz, too.
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Do you know who first started to play jazz?
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Yes, of course.
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The African Americans.
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Do you know when and where?
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Yes.
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Around 1900, people from many countries lived in New Orleans.
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Music was an important part of life in this city.
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Musicians in New Orleans started to play a new kind of music.
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It was called jazz.
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Jazz was a kind of music intended to make people happy.
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I know jazz is kind of a mixture of many different kinds of music.
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For example, African, blues, European, church music, and work songs.
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Most early jazz musicians were African American.
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They played in small bands, and they didn't write down their music.
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Yes, they learned to work together to produce a loose and relaxed beat
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that is so powerful that listeners cannot help but dance, or at least move their feet along with it.
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And soon, white musicians were playing jazz too.
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I know black and white musicians seldom played together in the United States at that time.
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You're right.
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Around 1920, jazz music began to spread.
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Jazz musicians moved from city to city.
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People listened to jazz records.
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They heard jazz on the radio.
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In the 1930s and 1940s, jazz was popular in the U.S and Canada.
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The music was called swing.
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It was played by big bands.
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It was said there are still a few bands made up
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of very old musicians playing the old-style jazz in a club in New Orleans.
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They play jazz for four and a half hours each evening, so many tourists go there and listen.
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Can the audience make some special requests for the songs?
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Yes.
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If the musicians are willing to play them, people pay a little money for the request.
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Traditional songs cost $1, and all others cost $2.
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That's interesting.
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I'd like to visit the city sometime in the future.
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Thank you.

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