“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
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Language:English
Published: Éditions de l'EHESS 2011-02-01
Series:Transposition
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transposition/383
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“I Thought It Was Jazz”: Polyphonic Voices in Jazz, Modernism, and the Processes of Institutionalization.
Transposition
1930s
1940s
artistic autonomy
commodification
institutionalization
media
title “I Thought It Was Jazz”: Polyphonic Voices in Jazz, Modernism, and the Processes of Institutionalization.
title_full “I Thought It Was Jazz”: Polyphonic Voices in Jazz, Modernism, and the Processes of Institutionalization.
title_fullStr “I Thought It Was Jazz”: Polyphonic Voices in Jazz, Modernism, and the Processes of Institutionalization.
title_full_unstemmed “I Thought It Was Jazz”: Polyphonic Voices in Jazz, Modernism, and the Processes of Institutionalization.
title_short “I Thought It Was Jazz”: Polyphonic Voices in Jazz, Modernism, and the Processes of Institutionalization.
title_sort i thought it was jazz polyphonic voices in jazz modernism and the processes of institutionalization
topic 1930s
1940s
artistic autonomy
commodification
institutionalization
media
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