Terry Teachout Popular Quotations

All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz.

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.

Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz.

As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it.