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mechanism in the direction of the discontinuous, the
participant, the spontaneous and improvisational, it can also
be seen as a return to a sort of oral poetry in which
performance is both creation and composition. It is a truism
among jazz performers that recorded jazz is “as stale as
yesterday’s newspaper.” Jazz is alive, like conversation; and like
conversation it depends upon a repertory of available themes.
But performance is composition. Such performance insures
maximal participation among players and dancers alike. Put in
this way, it becomes obvious at once that jazz belongs in that
family of mosaic structures that reappeared in the Western
world with the wire services. It belongs with symbolism in
poetry, and with the many allied forms in painting and in music.
The bond between the phonograph and song and dance is
no less deep than its earlier relation to telegraph and