Briefly define boogie-woogie and discuss some of its influences.

What will be an ideal response?

 solo piano form (like ragtime)developed out of the blues: form and harmonydriving left hand; ostinato (repeated pattern)piano entertainment in bars, etc.likely an adaptation of what blues singer-guitarists had been doingpopular in the late 1930smajor influence on rock ‘n’ roll of the 1950salso influenced the “jump” style of the big bands of the 1930s, particularly in Kansas City