“I Thought It Was Jazz”: Polyphonic Voices in Jazz, Modernism, and the Processes of Institutionalization.

This paper examines the movements in jazz in the 1930’s and 1940’s, and centers on the question of awareness regarding the emergence of bebop out of the Swing Era; the social, musical, and economic realities of the time period; and how these issues relate to concepts in modernism. The research inclu...

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Main Author: William M. Dabback
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage 2011-02-01
Series:Transposition
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/transposition/383