#15 - Concept Reference, Must Be True

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (A).

Answer choice (A): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E):

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[123@456]

Hi! I want to know why B is not the correct answer and in which part of the passage indicates some originators of bebop were motivated by the desire to attain artistic autonomy, as described in A?
Thank you!

[Meshal Alotaibi]

The very last sentence of the last para has the answer when it says: one that would grant...autonomy...

[Luke Haqq]

Hi 123@456!

As the previous poster notes, support for answer choice (A) can be found towards the end of the final paragraph of this passage. There were told that "Parker, Gillespie, and Monk had indeed willed a new musical subculture into being. ... one that would grant them a measure of autonomy and recognition." We're also told in the first paragraph that these artists were among the originators of bebop.

Regarding answer choice (B), this is a must be true question, and we don't know whether or not (B) is true. It's possible that it's true, but the passage doesn't go into their motivations on that point. Histories and other writings about jazz might attribute the rise of bebop to a need to overthrow the dominance of swing, but the author of this passage doesn't actually state the that originators of bebop made that claim themselves.