Contemporary Jazz Performance

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    Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
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    Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.
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    No performance is worth loss of geniality. ‘Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
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