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history of jazz quiz 4
quiz 4
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Music
Undergraduate 1
04/22/2009

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the Toonerville Trolly
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newspaper cartoon
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James Petrillo
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Banned music on the radio because record companies were scared to allow radios to broadcast their stuff. "free music"
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FCC
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Tried to censor stuff because people wrote "naughty" songs about sex and drugsG
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gene lees
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explained what swing is, citing spanish syncopations.
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Rudolph Fisher
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Black radiologist, explains cross cultural attraction
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caucasian storm harlem
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white people began to listen to jazz and went to urban cabarets. cotton club in harlem is famous, shift from black to white audiences.
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The Etude
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Popular music teachers magazine jazz is a problem because it corrupts young musicians and make for sloppy technique.
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The Jazz problem
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People argue that jazz is killing music because it inspires musicians to use bad style. Also people argue that bebop killed big band.
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Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie parker
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Founders of bebop
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Pianist William "Billy" Taylor
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Worked with guys above, says jazz is a good and equally available to all
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Jazz a summit meeting
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Playboy helped break down the gender roles of the 50's First issue included jazz as a trapping of all the good life
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Louis Armstrong on music and politics
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Things he said about civil rights were heard by all because he was famous
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