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
17.
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Question Type
Author’s perspective
Implied
What would the author agree with about the originators of bebop? We know the answer is likely to come from the last paragraph, which is where the author describes her view about the originators of bebop.
a
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The author never states anything regarding the level of promotion of bebop or the level of promotion of swing music.
b
They repudiated the ██████ ████████ ██ █████ █████████ ████ ████ ███ █ ████ ██ ███████ ██████████████
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.
e
They believed that █████ █████ ██████ ██ ██ ████ ██ ████████ ██ █████ ████
(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.
Difficulty
73% 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%137
146
75%155
Analysis
Author’s perspective
Implied
Critique or debate
Humanities
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
4%
148
b
10%
149
c
73%
160
d
4%
149
e
9%
148
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