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
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
15.
According to the author's argument, ██ █████ ████ ██ ███ ███████████ ██ █████ ████ █████████ ██ █ ██████ ██
Question Type
Stated
We’re looking for something the author stated about the motivation of some of the originators of bebop. This will be found in the last paragraph, which is where the author gives her opinion about the originators of bebop.
a
attain artistic autonomy
Stated.
b
overthrow the musical █████████ ██ █████ █████
The author never states that the bebop-originators wanted to overthrow the swing music.
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.
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.
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.
Difficulty
74% of people who answer get this correct
This is a moderately difficult question.
It is significantly easier than other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%134
145
75%155
Analysis
Stated
Critique or debate
Humanities
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
74%
159
b
2%
145
c
3%
149
d
14%
147
e
7%
154
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