Which genre does Michael Broyles NOT identify as a constituent of early jazz?

• A. Blues
• B. Ragtime
• C. Dixieland
• D. Country

Answer: (D)

Early jazz, in Broyles’s framework, grows out of a blend of African American musical forms and the New Orleans ensemble style. Blues supplies the expressive vocabulary and use of blue notes that give early jazz its emotional reach. Ragtime brings the distinctive syncopation and structural ideas that helped transition popular piano music into ensemble improvisation. Dixieland, meanwhile, represents the actual neighborhood and playing style in which early jazz coalesced, with collective improvisation and a front line of horns defining the sound.

Country does not fit into this mix, according to his analysis, because it belongs to a different stream of American music rather than the early jazz lineage. So the genre that does not belong as a constituent of early jazz is country.