Sounding Unexpectedness: Native American Jazz Musicians

The objective of this essay is to introduce you to the genre of American Indian jazz.

For this essay, you will write a minimum of 250 words (approximately one double spaced page) for each of the following sections in chapter 5:
Sounding Unexpectedness: Native American Jazz Musicians

1.Pages 91-97 (Intro through Unexpected Origin Stories)
2.Pages 98-105 (Native American Jazz Musicians through Thinking About Unexpectedness)

For each of the sections listed above you will: a) summarize the major points/themes of the section; and b) personally reflect upon the experience of reading the chapter and these sections in particular. Was the information new to you? How does this information complicate mainstream understandings of jazz as “America’s Classical Music?”