Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What with the Rhapsody in Blue, Stravinsky, and Gilbert Seldes, jazz is on the way to becoming respectable. That it is more than an imagined menace to conservatism is evidenced by the fact that it is being talked about by those who are usually reticent concerning fads and fancies. Mr. Wahio Frank has stopped analyzing America long enough to vivisect this latest of arts, in the New Republic. His criticism is more sapient than the average bombast against innovations, because it has a universal concept as its base Mr. Frank argues that while jazz may be folk art, such qualification...
...satisfy and Rifflan, standards. And their voices are excellent. But their enunciation is frightful. Of all the songs except those which the comedian talks not more than ten words get over the footlights. And no doubts that is just as well, if the lyrics are no better than jazz operetta demands...
...audience's attention; Lilian Davies, prima donna, and Allan Prior, tenor, who can sing, act, and look handsome all at the same time. With its old fashioned harmonies and duets, Katja stands first in the lists of current operettas, a formidable champion to dispute the supremacy of Sir Jazz in the tournament of musical entertainments...
Harling's Share. "Not jazz at all," some said but they were the ones whose senses were too dull to catch the relentless one-two-three-four beat that pulsed its way through the second act. They had looked for trick instruments, screeches, yowlings, offensive percussives, and there was none of that. But even the untutored ones felt instinctively that then they were hearing the best music of the piece. The first and last acts are mostly dialogue sprinkled here and there with an aria of the light opera type, pretty, trite, unsuitable to snorting drama. The second...
...Broadway sweat shop where jazz tunes are manufactured wholesale...