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
19.
According to the passage, which ███ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ████ ██ ███████ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ██████
Question Type
Stated
We’re asked what’s true about the “typical accounts of the origins of bebop.” That’s a reference to the other people’s accounts – the accounts that the author criticizes.
a
They assert that █████ ███ ██████████ ██ █████████ ███████ ██████████ ████████
This is the opposite of what those accounts assert. The typical accounts of bebop’s origin say that bebop was anti-commercial.
The typical accounts of bebop’s origin don’t have any opinion about classical music. The analogy to classical music in the second paragraph is made by the author, not by the typical accounts. And, in any case, the analogy to classical music in the second paragraph does not make a direct causal connection between classical music and bebop.
(C) is tempting, because we know the typical accounts believe that bebop was anti-commercial. They say that the musicians who originated bebop were reacting to swing, which had heavy commercial influences. However, there’s a difference between bebop’s originators being unmotivated by commercial concerns and bebop itself lacking commercial appeal. And, we don’t know about the “first” jazz movements.
d
They overly idealize ███ █████████ ██ ████████ █████████
Supported.
e
They were themselves ██████ ██ ██████████ ██████████
(E) states that the typical accounts of bebop’s origin were themselves influenced by commercial interests. But, we don’t know that the proponents of these accounts were motivated by commercial interest. The author merely says in the beginning of the last paragraph that these accounts “may suit the needs of contemporary jazz discourse.” But that’s not a comment on commercial interests.
Difficulty
36% of people who answer get this correct
This is a very difficult question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%154
163
75%172
Analysis
Stated
Critique or debate
Humanities
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
10%
151
b
16%
152
c
23%
154
d
36%
164
e
14%
153
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