Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a Department of Poetry, directed by a $12,000 Secretary of Poetry and assisted by an $8,000 Assistant Secretary of Poetry. Let the United States Government add also a Department of Prose* and a Department of Music. . . . Why not a Department of Dance and Jazz...
...Jazz music is descending into the final pit of banality by becoming serious. The other evening Paul Whiteman with his Palais Royal band treated Manhattan to a formal jazz recital in a concert hall. It was billed solemnly as a recital of the true and indigenous American music, from which all native American music presumably is to spring. As press-agentry it was too good not to have had some such motive among its unmentioned purposes. However, Whiteman made a speech which rang straight from his heart. He mourned and denounced the contempt with which jazz is held...
...leaving, the interviewer asked, "By the way, Professor Hill, how would you define jazz...
...That's a hard one. The most generally accepted definition is 'an original kind of syncopation'. But they told me at a League of Composers meeting in New York last week that jazz was losing its syncopation. I don't know about that--in fact, I don't know much about jazz...
Professor Hill has, however, written a "Jazz Study for Two Pianos" which has been played considerably on the concert stage in the past year...