But with this literary, and social rebirth, blacks also have the time to jazz things up with Jazz, and other famous Harlem renaissance music. Black music during this time became the big thing during the "Roaring Twenties" a period of culture explosion, and economic stability. Music for blacks also became easier to publish during this time, like with the Black Swan Studios, created due to discrimination, and exploitation of blacks in the music industry. this company gained a bunch of popularity, and soon enough they helped blacks get their share in other record labels. this would cause the Black Swan Studios to collapse only two years after they started.
There were many genres of music that were popularized during this time, some were:
Ragtime is a type of music made in 1895 and peaked until 1918, this form of music uses syncopation, which emphasizes normally unaccented beats in a song, “Ragging” happened when the melody was syncopated over a rhythmically direct bass line and was a popular style. Ragtime music, when played, was read off of sheet music, unlike Jazz
Blues: Next is the blues, being almost like the successor to Ragtime, blues music style ranged from slow and sorrowful to upbeat and salacious. Harlem in the early 1920's was a center for blues
Stride piano: Stride piano arriving during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, in 1925, helped make the transition into jazz, as it brought back the syncopation style of ragtime. when playing stride piano the left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.
Jazz: This last musical genre would come in the early 1930's. It was a combination of the blues, syncopation, ragtime tunes, and stride piano elements as well. After the migration, and blacks settled in their northern, more urbanized homes, they became more educated and exposed to the culture of music and art, this would cause a large expansion of the genre itself. It was different from its contemporaries since it was on of the first genres that did not involve sheet music, for the musician improvised and changed the mood, and beat to his partiality. This freedom and breakage from how the music was played brought about a feeling of enthusiasm in audiences of any race that roamed the Harlem night and briefly brought them together in the spirit of the music.