Selected Readings in the History of Jazz Reading One -From “Things ...
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Content Inside: Selected Readings in the History of Jazz Reading One-From “Things to Come: Swing Bands, Bebop, and the Rise of a Postwar Jazz Scene,” by Lewis Ehrenberg; in Recasting America, edited by Larry May (University of Chicago Press, 1989, pp.221-222). “[The] rise of bop music as the major jazz innovation of the era was as much a change in style as it represented a significant perceptual shift in the world. Initially, this new musical form found expression after the war as the entire band world plunged into musical and social turmoil. ‘The musicians were so good,’ observed trumpeter Red Rodney, ‘yet we were so screwed up. It was a period of being very bugged.’…As swing bands declined in the late 1940s, the music world fragmented into warring cults, each side portraying itself as the true heir of jazz. The war erupted among Dixieland revivalists who sought greater individualism and natural freedom in past music, white and black boppers who sought these values in a contempory musical mode, and the remaining proponents of swing, the popular jazz sound of the 1930s and war years. Partisans hurled charges of ‘Nazism’, ‘Fascism’, and “commercialism” at each other…Ebony[magazine] declared: the long war between boppist and anti-boppist factions was almost political in its defenses. Boppists likened themselves to revolutionary leftists, their opponents as money-grabbing capitalists.” Reading Two-From “Things to Come: Swing Bands, Bebop, and the Rise of a Postwar Jazz Scene,” by Lewis Ehrenberg; in Recasting America, edited by Larry May (University of Chicago Press, 1989, pp.226-227). “[The] repeal of Prohibition had the most dramatic impact [as a stimulant to the band business]…soon swing’s power attracted young high school and college dancers and listeners as radio, records, theaters and even conservative hotels joined in….a new group of bandleaders took advantage of the possibilities to end the dominance of the ‘society ...
