Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Known for her recent album, "With a Little Luck," which received two 1988 New York Music Awards, McCalla will sing a variety of rhythm and blues, folk and jazz songs...
...answer is definitely not clear. The first description is that of the new Core, while the second describes the old Jazz. The difference is fuzzy at best. And some evidence suggests that last year's course may even be more Corelike than its successor...
...renaming of Jazz as "An American Music" goes against one of the stated goals of Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, one of the chief founders of the Core at Harvard. Rosovsky wrote...
...this is the case, then why does the new course disregard jazz's true origins in "Africa and the New World" and begin with "ragtime and 19th century band music"? Instead of adopting a broader philosophical view of jazz, the course has limited its scope...
...powers-that-be at the Core Curriculum may feel that the new Jazz somehow succeeds at embodying the philosophy of the Core while the old one does not. This is clearly not the case. To claim that there is a significant distinction between two courses which are virtually identical--in texts, listenings, professor, requirements, meeting time, course catalog number and exam group--is at best a poorly executed decision. At worst, it is a penalization of the students who demonstrated a true interest in jazz by taking the course before it became just another magnet for students filling requirements...