jazz: america's classical

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American History

 

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John C

 

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November 24, 2015

 

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University

 

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the French) of jazz by making it something to be appreciated by those who understood it, and not something of American exceptionalism. This, of course, treads dangerously close to "downgrading the artistry and artifice of musicians"; the "dehistorization" that grew out primitavism also does not account for the significant contributions in jazz history...
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This could arguably be interpreted as saying jazz would be the same without Duke Ellington or in a similar line of argument, that classical music would be the same without Beethoven. However, Delaunay does provide strong justifications for the universal nature of jazz, most notably by pointing out the evidence that jazz was "born in New Orleans," yet reflects evidence of Franco-Spanish and Anglo-Saxon culture as well as the "epic temperament of Negro Africa...
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