Episode 7 - Culture High and  Low: When Jazz Entered The Concert Hall

Episode 7 - Culture High and Low: When Jazz Entered The Concert Hall

NEPR College Connection

03/03/2017 3:47PM

Episode Synopsis "Episode 7 - Culture High and Low: When Jazz Entered The Concert Hall"

Waksman, Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College, gave a historical view of the movement of jazz from “lowbrow” popular music, to “highbrow symphonic art”. Waksman focused on the people that influenced this movement, and how it changed cultural perceptions and expectations of jazz.

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