[Dixielandjazz] Music for the gay trade

[Mike Durham]

I really don't understand this concern (or even obsession) with sexuality - 
who gives a damn? Surely it's the music that counts? It would be nice to 
think that music people at least could rise above this "issue" in a way of 
which the grubbier parts of life (politics, the gutter press, etc.) seem 
incapable.

Mike.

>From: "Fred Spencer" <drjz at bealenet.com>
>To: "Bill Biffle" <bbiffle at swcp.com>
>CC: Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Music for the gay trade
>Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 23:50:33 -0500
>
>Dear Bill,
>You seemed to have stopped it. Well done! For anyone who has an unbiased
>interest in homosexuality and music, and doesn't consider it a "fun" topic,
>there is a book by John Gill, which, although it has the somewhat
>unfortunate title of "Queer Noises", is "a revealing yet sensitive study of
>the lives of a host of performers--from Benjamin Britten and John Cage to
>Bessie Smith and Janis Joplin, from Billy Strayhorn and Cecil Taylor  to
>Sun Ra and the Pet Shop Boys--makes public what has always been known, that
>many of this century's greatest musicians are gay. Gill also examines the
>forces behind 'this code of silence'--families and relatives, managers and
>business associates, journalists and critics, historians and musicologists,
>and the inner workings of the music business itself." Regards.
>Fred
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bill Biffle" <bbiffle at swcp.com>
>To: "Bob Romans" <cellblk7 at comcast.net>; "glen page" <gpage at direct.ca>;
>"Norman Vickers" <nvickers1 at cox.net>; "DJML"
><dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:52 PM
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Music for the gay trade
>
>
> > I'm not sure how this thing got started, but I think we should stop it
>now.
> >
> > Bill Biffle
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bob Romans" <cellblk7 at comcast.net>
> > To: "glen page" <gpage at direct.ca>; "Norman Vickers" <nvickers1 at cox.net>;
> > "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 3:46 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Music for the gay trade
> >
> >
> > > Howabout "I Can't Give You Anything Butt Love"!!
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "glen page" <gpage at direct.ca>
> > > To: "Norman Vickers" <nvickers1 at cox.net>; "DJML"
> > > <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 6:04 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Music for the gay trade
> > >
> > >
> > > > I don't know about "a fun thread" but here are a few.
> > > >
> > > > Call Of The Freaks,  Russell
> > > > Peculiar,  Brownlee
> > > > Bottomland , Williams
> > > > Queer Notions, Henderson
> > > > Call Me Happy, Hines
> > > > Freakish Light Blues, Oliver
> > > > Got Butter On It , Parham
> > > > Sweet Substitute, Morton
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Norman Vickers" <nvickers1 at cox.net>
> > > > To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 3:15 PM
> > > > Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Music for the gay trade
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This should be a fun thread.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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