[Dixielandjazz] music/personality

[fred spencer]

  Thanks  for this, I deserved it! My "schizo" was not intended as a 
pejorative comment aimed at Snogpitch or any other member of a well 
rounded group with preferences "split" among different types of music. 
My combined brevity and a hatred of typing (my big fingers never seem to 
fit the keyboard) make for my sometimes abbreviated prose. The point 
about "jazz' was not to start a discussion, but to show how the very 
foundation of this study is flawed by an inability to define one, or 
more, categories of music, e. g. jazz. Can you expect to equate the 
personalities of someone who enjoys dixieland with a lover of modal jazz 
- obviously not or why should  there be a DJML?  I still believe 
that.this study, and so many others, fit the "publish or perish" efforts 
that fill the columns of scientific journals that have minimal, 
credibile, review criteria. Enow! Cheers
Fred
Nancy Giffin wrote:

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>>  From: fred spencer <drjz at bealenet.com>
>>  Dear Snogpitch,
>> You must fall into a "schizo" group because you enjoy
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>Hey, Doc! Who you calling "schizo"?
>I'd prefer "diverse" or "well balanced."
>My music suits my moods and the many worlds to explore within me.
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>Then you said:
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>> "... The first, and, perhaps the only question to be asked, is - how is
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>"jazz" defined? - all the way from ragtime and swing (neither of which
>purists say is jazz) through bop, cool, modal, rock, fusion - never mind New
>Orleans, Chicago, Kansas City, and Dixieland..."
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>Oh, now, let's not start THAT again!  ;)  "Let My People Go.'" I think it's
>safe to "ass-u-me" that all-of-the-above would be included as jazz in the
>study, because all of it IS jazz, RELATIVE to the other forms of music.
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>Realistically, I don't expect studies to be perfect or right, just better
>than what came before and of some inspiration to young researchers.
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