PT156.S3.P3.Q15

PrepTest 156 - Section 3 - Passage 3 - Question 15

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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
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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
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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
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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
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15.

According to the author's argument, ██ █████ ████ ██ ███ ███████████ ██ █████ ████ █████████ ██ █ ██████ ██

a

attain artistic autonomy

Stated.

82%
b

overthrow the musical █████████ ██ █████ █████

The author never states that the bebop-originators wanted to overthrow the swing music.

2%
c

strip jazz of ███ ████████████ ████ █████████████

The author never states that the bebop-originators wanted to strip jazz of associations with entertainment. The third paragraph mentions the idea of “shedding jazz’s associations with dance, popular song, and entertainment.” But that paragraph contains the author’s description of the other people’s view about bebop-originators. It does not contain the author’s position about the bebop-originators’ motivation.

3%
d

escape the commercial ██████████ ███████ ██ █████ █████

The author never states that the bebop-originators wanted to escape the commercial influences in swing music. (D) may describe something supported by the other people’s account of bebop; but the author disagrees with those other people.

8%
e

secure financial rewards ███████ ████ █████ █████████ ██ █████ █████████

The author never states that the bebop-originators wanted to make more money than swing musicians. Although the author does believe that bebop-originators were influenced by commercialism, we don’t know that this was manifested by a desire to make more money than swing musicians. That’s a very specific aspect of commercialism that the passage doesn’t support.

5%

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