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What Is This Thing Called Jazz?
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This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1946 profile on jazz music, surveying the debate over improvisation versus orchestration and the boundary between jazz and commercial dance music.
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Mavis Gallant
Neil Besner wrote the first PhD on Mavis Gallant’s work in 1983 at UBC and published the first full-length book on Gallant in 1988. He has written or edited books on Alice Munro and Carol Shields and co-edited anthologies of poetry and short fiction for Oxford. His most recent book is Fishing with Tardelli: A Memoir of Family in Time Lost (2022).
