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Post Subject: Jazz has become serious businessPosted by steverino on: 10/10/2024
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Germans still define music as "E"-Musik or "U"-Musik. E is for "Ernst" or serious/ernest and U is for "Unterhaltung" or entertainment. Funny enough Jazz falls und "E".
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Although Jazz didn't start out serious there is no question that it evolved that way. So I am not surprised that Germans and maybe other Europeans would categorize it that way. Of course that led to its loss of audience in the US, where it has a bit lower support than classical music amongst the population. Miles Davis was one of the few that reached a larger audience along with Dave Brubeck. Both genres are in serious difficulty here in the US subsequent to the pandemic and probably require some level of subsidization to survive, not that such funding is likely.
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