mass culture and the creative artist and uses of the blues

closedSignupBar: { Knute Rockne and his "Four Horsemen" at Notre Dame spurred interest in college football. } } The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald called the 1920s the "Jazz Age"--and the decade was truly jazz's golden age. } This is somewhat of a fiction, for in the blues there are always “better” notes with their implied harmonic substitutions available at any given time. contentType: 'application/json; charset=UTF-8', • Cue sports (pool, carom billiards, snooker) Colors • Roger Kimball, writing on the legacy of Hilton Kramer, one of the founders of the literary magazine The New Criterion, observes that, “Tradition is not the enemy, but the indispensable handmaiden of originality and lasting cultural achievement.” Today, the embrace of tradition in popular music is rare, but when it comes to the blues, its practitioners understand the importance of preserving its legacy through their own work. Just think of Prince at the Superbowl in 2007. }, Dædalus draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose Fellows are among the nation's most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and the humanities, as well as the full range of professions and public life. How could they not? + '

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