essays questions on jazz

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• • • • • New technologies had a big impact on the work of musicians in the 1930s and 1940s. Choose two examples from Chapter 10 of musicians whose stylistic approaches were affected by the technologies available to them, and provide specific examples of the relationship between technological possibility and musical aesthetics. Compare and contrast the musical and professional practices of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. How were their musical styles similar? How did they differ? How did each musician’s nonmusical choices lead them down different career paths? Describe the social conditions of black musicians during the Swing Era, and explain how bebop can be understood as a reaction against those conditions. Choose two musical examples that allow you to discuss the cultural and musical meanings of “coolness” and “hotness” in the context of jazz in the 1950s. Be specific in describing particular musical details, and be clear in explaining the connection between those musical details and cultural associations with “coolness” and “hotness.” Explain the importance of new recording technologies to the spread of cool jazz and hard bop in the 1950s.
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