Quintessentially “American”: Jazz

• Ragtime & Dixieland: first jazz forms to gain mainstream popularity

  • “Tiger Rag” [recording]

• (early) Blues

  • “St.Louis Blues” [recording]

• Swing

  • “Take the A-Train” [Billy Strayhorn] [recording]

• White borrowings: the Gershwins

  • Opera: Porgy & Bess, “Summertime” [recording]
  • Orchestra: Rhapsody in Blue [recording]

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