The Nation's Early Experiments in Jazz
Briefly

from The Nation3 weeks ago
Henrietta Straus's early 1922 comment on jazz, proclaiming it may be seen as a virtue, reflects The Nation's hesitant embrace of the genre amid a conservative cultural stance.
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By 1924, Straus praised Paul Whiteman's concert for its revolutionary nature, yet the treatment of jazz remained as a white phenomenon overshadowing its African American origins.
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