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Jazz and Jazz Perspectives
The two perspectives that Martin and Waters present on the development of jazz are uptown/downtown theory and the generational theory. The uptown/downtown theory explains how jazz developed from the living of different people in the downtown or uptown. The theory explains how the blacks lived in the uptown and how Creoles lived in the downtown. This difference in living led to the difference in the composition of their music, thereby influencing the development of jazz music. The difference in composition was also influenced by the Creole of Color, and how they could read as they were educated, therefore had a more organized composition of music.
The generational theory is the second perspective that martin and Waters present to describe the compositional differences in the development of jazz. The theory explains how the Creoles used to play a sweet style of jazz that was educated but got replaced by a rougher style. The theory is different from the uptown/downtown as it explains how the composition of the sweet style of jazz was replaced by a style that was rough. This is because the rough jazz became more popular than the educated, sweet style of the early Creole.
The two perspectives have different prepositions about the creation of the New Orleans style of jazz, especially in regard to Creole participation. While the uptown/downtown theory presents he differences in the jazz style and composition based on the living locations, the generational theory explores the differences in generations of the Creoles. This brings the difference between the two perspectives based on the contextual reason behind the development of the jazz among the early Creole. At the same time, the two theories differ in the explanation of the development of a rough style of music. While uptown/downtown theory focuses on living conditions, the generational theory focuses on the generational influence on the style of jazz.