What's wrong with being classical?(Special Jazz Issue)(jazz as the US' only classical music)

The Antioch Review | June 22, 1999| | Copyright

According to Grover Sales, he and Gene Lees got the title of their 1984 book, Jazz: America's Classical Music, from James Baldwin, who once remarked that "Jazz is America's classical music. There isn't any other." A more temperate evangelist, Dr. Billy Taylor, has been using the phrase for decades as a way to get his fellow Americans to esteem jazz in the same way that people in other countries esteem it. Probably Dr. Taylor is as responsible as anyone for keeping the phrase in circulation.

But not everyone cottons to the phrase. Jon Pareles, the New York Times's ...

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