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. ███
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The author never states anything regarding the level of promotion of bebop or the level of promotion of swing music.
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You might be tempted by (B) because of the third paragraph, which refers to the “shedding of jazz’s associations with … entertainment.” But, the third paragraph is the author’s description of the other people’s account of bebop’s origin. So, the reference to bebop “shedding” various qualities possessed by older jazz is not something the author necessarily agrees with. That’s why we cannot say the author agrees that bebop musicians repudiated or rejected anything about swing music.
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Although we know the author believes commercialism was involved in the origin of bebop, (D) is too specific and makes a comparison the author never supports. The bebop-originators wanted to “find a new point of engagement with [the commercial music world]” – but that doesn’t indicate anything about the amount of money they made.
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(E) is too specific. We know that the author believes the bebop-originators were not divorced from commercialism. But that doesn’t mean they thought bebop would be just as popular as swing. The involvement of commercialism in the origin of bebop doesn’t have to be purely about desiring more money or wanting to make more popular music.