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How Did Jazz Become "Respectable" Music?

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Back in the day--from the origin of Jazz in the 1890's to about the early 1950's--Jazz was considered the rebellious music of the youth, so much so that it provided the soundtrack to the very decadent roaring 20's. It was music associated with drinking, hard drugs, per-marital sex and the moral decay of the West. How exactly did it end up going from that to how we now see Jazz: respectable music for high-society types in a similar way to Classical music? and generally what lessons can Rock learn from it as it transitions to a kind of rooted tradition, not totally unlike Jazz & Classical.
If the image of Jazz can do a complete 180 and go from degenerate rebellious music to highly respectable, can Rock do the same? or is the idea of subversion & rebellion too deeply rooted in the Rock tradition to ever become truly "respectable" and "high-class" and taught/studied in universities the same way the aforementioned genres are?
what do you guys think?
 

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