Roll Over Rock: A Study of Music in Contemporary CultureStainer & Bell, 1981 - 175 pages |
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Page 74
... groups . Jazz had all the traditional folk characteristics of portability , improvisation and the essential communality of acceptance , both in the performing group and in its audiences ' reactions and involvement . So jazz bands played ...
... groups . Jazz had all the traditional folk characteristics of portability , improvisation and the essential communality of acceptance , both in the performing group and in its audiences ' reactions and involvement . So jazz bands played ...
Page 93
... groups of one sort or another , the groups concerned were born neither in the jungle nor among the mediaeval peasantry . They were born into our technocratic society , which burgeoned from the sophisticated , linear , causal mode of ...
... groups of one sort or another , the groups concerned were born neither in the jungle nor among the mediaeval peasantry . They were born into our technocratic society , which burgeoned from the sophisticated , linear , causal mode of ...
Page 94
... groups whether their minority status results from age , class or ethnic differences - undermines the cerebral function of an affected musical art form . For these minority groups have a fundamental need to celebrate a ritual music of ...
... groups whether their minority status results from age , class or ethnic differences - undermines the cerebral function of an affected musical art form . For these minority groups have a fundamental need to celebrate a ritual music of ...
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2100351 | 7 |
The Path to Elitism | 21 |
The Path to Chauvinism | 32 |
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