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

03/03/2017 59 min
Episode 7 - Culture High and  Low: When Jazz Entered The Concert Hall

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Episode Synopsis

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.