the view that it is simply a vehicle for political commentary, and instead it was viewed objectively as a form of art, it would not only would be accessible to a larger audience, but it would allow itself to be judged as an art rather than the political statement it may or may not be attempting to make. Aftermath of free jazz After the popularity of the late 1960s and 1970s in Europe, improvised music began to influence and became influenced by other genres of music. In the United States, Europe, and the rest of the world, musicians continued to play improvisational music, but they also looked to other genres for inspiration. This term 'improvised music' may, of course, be used in the common dictionary sense, and it is particularly useful in references to the pan-genre eclecticism which has characterized much music-making from the 1980s onwards, as musicians draw freely from, or meld together, not only jazz and contemporary art music but also aspects of various mainstream popular musics (blues, rock, soul, pop) and world music (ethnic traditions). Notes References Adams, Simon. "Rutherford, Paul." Grove Music Online. 2nd Edition. Web. 24 Apr 2012. Conyers, James. African American Jazz and Rap: Social and Philosophical Examinations of Black Expressive Behavior. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2001. 91. Print. Drott, Eric. "Free Jazz and the French Critic." Journal of the American Musicological Society 61.3 (2008): 541–81. Print. Europe Jazz Network, 24 Apr 2012 Gilbert, Mark. "Parker, Evan." Grove Music Online. 2nd Edition. Web. 24 Apr 2012. Harris, William. "How You Sound?? Amiri Baraka Writes Free Jazz." Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies. (2004): 3115–25. Print. Heffley, Mike. Northern Sun, Southern Moon. 1st ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Print. Iannapollo and Adams. "Brötzmann, Peter ." Grove Music Online. 2nd Edition. Web. 24 Apr 2012. Iannapollo and Adams. "Kowald, Peter." Grove Music Online. 2nd Edition. Web. 24 Apr 2012. Kernfeld, Barry. "Improvised Music." Grove Music Online. 2nd Edition. Web. 24 Apr 2012. Kernfeld and Noglik. "Bauer, Conrad." Grove Music Online. 2nd Edition. Web. 24 Apr 2012. Knauer, Wolfram. "Mangel, Albert." Grove Music Online. 2nd Edition. Web. 24 Apr 2012. Lewis, George. "Improvised Music after 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives." Black Music Research Journal. 16.1 (1996): 91–112. Print. Robinson, J. "Free Jazz." Grove Music Online. 2nd Edition. Web. 24 Apr 2012. Ross, Larry. African-American Jazz Musicians in the Diaspora. 1st ed.