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
14.
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a
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The author doesn’t say anything suggesting she thinks commercialism contributed to the decline of swing music.
b
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(B) is a paraphrase of the author’s critique in the last paragraph. The author’s point is that, contrary to other people’s position, the originators of bebop were not anti-commercialism.
c
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(C) is the point of the second paragraph. But that paragraph doesn’t capture the author’s main point.
d
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(D) is a premise found in the second sentence of the last paragraph. But the author uses this premise to support a different claim, so it can’t be the main point.
e
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The author never suggested that bebop’s originators thought swing music was fundamentally similar to bebop. So it can’t be the main point.