Jazz Articles
By Dr. Mark Gridley
- Is Jazz Popular Music?
- This was the original manuscript for an article that was heavily edited by the publisher of The Instrumentalist magazine. It was ultimately published in its edited form in volume 41, number 8 (March 1987) on pages 19-22, 25-26 and 85. It won the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Educational Press Association of America for 1987.
- Three Approaches to Defining Jazz
- This article appeared in THE MUSICAL QUARTERLY, 1989, Volume 73, Issue 4, pages 513-531, and was reprinted in JAZZ: A CENTURY OF CHANGE: READINGS AND NEW ESSAYS, Edited by Lewis Porter (Schirmer, 1997).
It was developed from the “What is Jazz?” chapter of the Jazz Styles book by Mark Gridley (Prentice-Hall, 1978), An Outline of Jazz (copyright 1973 by Gridley), and a paper presented to the Allegheny chapter of The American Musicological Society on October 26, 1985 by Robert Maxham and Mark Gridley.
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