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Commercially oriented or popular music-influenced forms of jazz have both long been criticized, at least since the emergence of Bop.
Traditional jazz enthusiasts have dismissed Bop, the 1970s jazz fusion era much else as a period of commercial debasement of the music.
According to Bruce Johnson, jazz music has always had a " tension between jazz as a commercial music and an art form ".
Gilbert notes that as the notion of a canon of jazz is developing, the “ achievements of the past ” may become "... privileged over the idiosyncratic creativity ...” and innovation of current artists.
Village Voice jazz critic Gary Giddins argues that as the creation and dissemination of jazz is becoming increasingly institutionalized and dominated by major entertainment firms, jazz is facing a "... perilous future of respectability and disinterested acceptance.
" David Ake warns that the creation of “ norms ” in jazz and the establishment of a “ jazz tradition ” may exclude or sideline other newer, avant-garde forms of jazz.

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