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What's With This Surge in Jazz Bashing?

MUSICAL MUGGING

How did jazz lose its position as America’s homegrown musical treasure to lately become a symbol of pretentiousness and ‘eat-your-broccoli art’?

Ted Gioia
Ted Gioia
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