Упр.54 Unit 1 ГДЗ English Михеева 11 класс
54. A.Read what J.B.Priestley, the well-known British author, wrote about a jazz-band performance he heard in the USA in the 1930s and comment on it.
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54. A.Read what J.B.Priestley, the well-known British author, wrote about a jazz-band performance he heard in the USA in the 1930s and comment on it. Try to figure out what peopletasks perception/impression of music depends on.
J. B. Priestley writes that the jazzmen were wearing “convicts’ clothes” and battered black bowler hats. Now and again, as he notes, one of them would clutch the microphone and follow incomprehensible lyrics into it; but most of the time they simply banged away at the piano and drums and blasted away through trumpet, trombone and saxophone. The author confesses that he didn’t know if it was good jazz or bad, but the sheer noise produced by the performers whom he calls “young maniacs” could easily blast anyone’s ear-drums. The smoky hot room simply shuddered with sound. Naturally, no talk was possible; only a desperate exchange of roars and shrieks.
B. Do you think your parents/grandparents could say the same about modern music styles and modern music bands?