When researching the history of a specific subject, historians' views can differ significantly. My findings concluded that each critic or historian has his or her own way of arguing about who or what made jazz a beloved genre within American pop culture. Some even dispute the place of its first origins. Throughout the text, several other sources remain indifferent to the synthesis of jazz. Regardless of the position of the authors, the sources mentioned in my writings have provided useful information that will be used in my research work. The author of Shining Trumpets, Rudi Blesh, presented the reader with an interesting argument. A true enthusiast himself, Blesh pointed out that due to the emergence of new variations of jazz, the roots of the genre are losing transparency and, as a result, the music can no longer truly be appreciated or understood. To give the reader an overview, he began the text with the early beginnings of jazz in the first three chapters and later, its influence on other forms of music, such as the Blues, as well as its spread from New Orleans . His goal was less to try to support his assertion that true jazz is dying than to enlighten the reader about what jazz is, in its purest form. As a cornerstone, he cited some primary sources such as old records and periodicals written during the genre's heyday. Interestingly enough, he used African music such as Ballanta and compared it to the tempo heard in previous jazz recordings. However, other historians have taken a different approach to understanding it. In The Jazz Tradition, Martin Williams seems to use the opposite approach. His argument is that the elements of jazz do not necessarily come from the medium of paper, but rather from the genre in recounting its losses following Katrina and its experience with musicians who are not. so well known to outsiders in the jazz community. Additionally, his goal was to make it known that there is a facade to what many consider to be New Orleans jazz. He attributes a “commercial culture” that has led to an “ignorance” of what music represents (826). White also discussed what he sees as a new era of jazz in the aftermath of the hurricane. Given the various sources I have provided, many have addressed the location factors, origins, and individuals responsible for creating a successful genre. Although the authors have some subjectivity in their writing on their subject as well as a shared affection for it, their sources have provided me with a substantial amount of credible information that will be crucial to my research paper..