The jazz influence, from ragtime to Josephine Baker's tour of central Europe, revolutionized modern classical music. And when the US jazz musicians heard the results, especially in the music of Stravinsky and the impressionists, it inspired modern jazz
Modernism continued to believe in the possibility of truth, whether revealed by modern art and technology or by return to a primal source. The precedent was Freud's discovery of the unconscious which got mixed in with projections about non-western, especially black American culture, and its music. A lot of early rock critics (Marsh, Landau, Marcus) idealised black culture and kind of weaponised it against white women artists in particular. Mitchell's "Art Nouveau" persona was a protest against what she saw as inverted snobbery (when she wasn't dealing with Rolling Stone's jibes about her sex life). Of course she had the last laugh when she went jazz herself.
The jazz influence, from ragtime to Josephine Baker's tour of central Europe, revolutionized modern classical music. And when the US jazz musicians heard the results, especially in the music of Stravinsky and the impressionists, it inspired modern jazz
Modernism continued to believe in the possibility of truth, whether revealed by modern art and technology or by return to a primal source. The precedent was Freud's discovery of the unconscious which got mixed in with projections about non-western, especially black American culture, and its music. A lot of early rock critics (Marsh, Landau, Marcus) idealised black culture and kind of weaponised it against white women artists in particular. Mitchell's "Art Nouveau" persona was a protest against what she saw as inverted snobbery (when she wasn't dealing with Rolling Stone's jibes about her sex life). Of course she had the last laugh when she went jazz herself.