Question

African American musicians in the 1950s faced a dilemma

regarding classical music. A cosmopolitan display of knowledge about modern classical music enabled artists such as Duke Ellington to counter misconceptions that jazz musicians were untutored. Yet jazz musicians interest in classical music was often taken as an admission that jazz innovations were derived from European sources. After Charlie Parker expressed admiration for Bartok, an interviewer asked if Parker's musical innovations were adaptations of classical predecessors' ideas. Often, comparisons with modern European composers connected jazz to the presumed superior standards of classical music without recognizing that jazz articulated its own musical vision by developing expressive and improvisational principles rooted in a wide variety of African American musics--that challenged the hegemony of European standards in American music.

The author mentions Bartók primarily in order to?

emphasize the cosmopolitanism of some African American musicians

contrast innovations in jazz with innovations in classical music

highlight a jazz musician's interest in modern classical music

provide an example of a presumption about jazz

note a European influence on American jazz musicians​

Answer 1

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