type of dance music-whether it be used in an unmediated or slightly stylized form-that has existed since the war and is distinguished from what preceded it by its decidedly modern character, a quality which itsell however, is sorely in need of analysis. This modernity is perhaps characterized most strikingly by those resistances-differing considerably according to region-which are encountered in jazz and polarized along the lines of either its quality of mechanical soullessness or a licentious…
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