La educación musical reglada en los inicios del jazz: N. Clark Smith y Zelia Breaux

Abstract

For a variety of reasons, such as the need of African-American society to defi ne its own identity post-Emancipation, and the consideration of the African component of jazz as primitive, formal music education of the earlier generations of jazz musicians has not been duly examined through historical research. However, socio-economic trends, historical documents, and anecdotal testimonies point at the origin of jazz happening at a moment of African-American push for education, including the teaching of music based on the European/classical model.