When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American.
In plain words
Some music carries its home with it wherever it goes.
Where these words come from
- 85% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- From Gershwin's own essay 'The Composer in the Machine Age' (1933), reprinted in Daniel Albright (ed.), Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources (2004).
- essay 'The Composer in the Machine Age'
- 1933
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