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Jazz in 1920's New York was mostly based on social dancing and musical theater. This type of jazz was what Hamm described as white jazz performed for white audiences. While most jazz writers did acknowledge the black roots of jazz, their conception of jazz was mostly shaped by the elements of white jazz such as the dance band music of groups like the Paul Whiteman band...
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For example, writer Henry O. Osgood wrote entire chapters in a book on jazz about Irving Berlin, Paul Whiteman, and George Gershwin but only a footnote about jazz performed by black musicians. Isaac Goldberg identified jazz as more of a combination of African-American and Jewish elements, writing that jazz's "fundamental rhythm and its characteristic melody derive from the Negro; its commercialization belongs largely to the popular-song industry of the white...
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