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Originally Posted by bas  Jazz is an art music and most art is unaccessible intellectually to most of the American public. Mayba more of a social statement that a statement about academia's role. |
This is precisely where Jazz left the pavement. It had run its course as popular music (swing & the big bands) and the jazz-as-art mentality doesn't do anything to help its popularity. Accessibility is the key; and, since bebop, jazz hasn't been accessible to the majority of people.