Self-study
P1
In typical accounts of the beginnings of bebop—the first "modern" jazz style, which was originated in the 1940s by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk, among others—commercialism plays an important, though indirect, role. ███
Other people’s position ·
Commercialism played important role in origins of bebop jazz
other people's premise ·
Swing jazz in decline
Doesn't explain the importance of commercialism in bepop's rise... yet
P2
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Author’s commentary on other people’s position ·
Author’s analogizes other people’s position to another argument
Other people's accounts of changes in jazz are similar to accounts of changes in classical music
P3
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Author's interpretation of other people's premise ·
Commercialism was responsible for decline of swing jazz
Author's interpretation of other people's premise ·
Bebop was a reaction against decline of commericialized swing
P4
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Author's criticism ·
Other people's argument is attractive but flawed
Author's premise ·
Commercialism actually supported bebop's rise
Commercialism was important to origins of bebop, but not because bebop was a reaction against commercialism; instead, bebop benefited from commercialism
Passage Style
Critique or debate
18.
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a
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This may be tempting, because the author drew an analogy between the typical account of bebop’s origin and a view about classical music. However, the analogy was drawn by the author. We don’t know that the people who hold the typical view about bebop’s origin have any thoughts about classical music. We know what the author thinks about classical music, but not what the proponents of the typical account of bebop’s origin think.
b
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We know that the proponents of the typical view believe that swing music became, at some point in time, artistically limited compared to bebop. And, we know that they believe swing dance involved commercial interests and was relatively popular. But, we don’t know that they think the popularity of swing music was primarily because of its lack of artistry. Maybe swing became popular because it was appealing to listeners, or because it was easy to dance to. The passage doesn’t suggest that these features of swing result from swing’s lack of artistry.
c
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This is the author’s view in the first sentence of the last paragraph. But this isn’t the view of the proponents of the typical account of bebop’s origin.
d
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This is the opposite of what the proponents of the typical view of bebop’s origin would think. In the last sentence of the third paragraph, we’re told that as it developed, jazz lost associations with dance, popular song, and entertainment. Bebop is the “logical culmination of this process.” So bebop would not embrace dance, popular song, and entertainment.