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The Conflict Between Musical And Commercial Values In The Minneapolis Jazz Community, Robert Stebbins

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

In the world of symphony music people have long been aware of the frequent tensions that may develop between practical and aesthetic requirements. The most fundamental idea underlying the present study is that similar problems also emerge in the realm of jazz. It is theorized that jazz offers to its devotees a world of musical and emotional values which often tends to become an all-absorbing interest, dominating the whole of their lives and actually causing them to form with others into quasi-communities based on their common musical interests. The practical requirements of making a living, however, may conflict with these …