Everything about Rent Party totally explained
A
rent party (sometimes called a
house party) is a social occasion where tenants hire a musician or band to play and pass the hat to raise money to pay their rent. The rent party played a major role in the development of jazz and blues music. The
Oxford English Dictionary states that the term
skiffle means "rent party", indicating the informality of the occasion. Thus, the word became associated with informal music. However, many notable jazz musicians are associated with rent parties, including
pianists
Speckled Red,
James P. Johnson and
Fats Waller, although rent parties also featured
bands as well. The
OED also gives
boogie as a term for rent party.
Rent parties were often the location of so-called
cutting contests, which involves jazz pianists taking turns at the piano, attempting to out-do each other. The famous ragtime musician
Jelly Roll Morton was known for deliberately avoiding these parties.
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