Jazz Was Born As Resistance Music. It Got Institutionalized. Can It Get Its Protest Mojo Back? by Artsjournal1

"As it evolved, jazz remained a resistance music precisely because it was the sound of Black Americans building something together, in the face of repression. But at the end of the 1960s, … schools and universities across the country began welcoming jazz as America's so-called 'classical music,' canonizing its older styles and effectively freezing it […]

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