>Jazz was not entirely accepted in the '30s or even
the '40s. It was
crossing over, with more whites
>listening and performing (is Paul Whiteman the
perfect name for a
non-black musician who
>crowned himself the "KIng of Jazz" or what?), but
still somewhat
disreputable -- isn't that the
>formula for popularity in music?
I'm a little slow on the uptake this week--this didn't even
catch my eye until days after it was written--but then how do
you account for the '20s being known as the "Jazz Age"? I
know that's, to some degree, a label that's been stuck on
that decade after the fact, but there are quite a few
contemporary references to jazz in mainstream art and lit. Or
are you distinguishing between types of jazz here, or. . .
?
Vicky
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