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violin-marginal-in-jazz · poutiainen2009-stringprovisation
- Citation
- poutiainen2009-stringprovisation
- Claim ID
- violin-marginal-in-jazz
- Assertion
- The violin was part of African American music before jazz, a significant early blues instrument and part of early jazz instrumentation, yet it became marginal in jazz by the 1940s; Poutiainen attributes this to the lack of a percussive attack, difficulties of amplification, and the technical demands that modern jazz improvisation placed on violinists.
- Quote
It seems likely that the position has origin in the many challenges that the modern jazz expression presented to violinists.
- Quote language
- en
- Locator
- page: 1–4
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