Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] What Business Are We In? The Bottom Line

[TCASHWIGG at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/26/04 1:21:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, DWSI at aol.com 
writes:

> . Let's not 
> confuse record sales, ticket sales, or audience applause as some valid 
> measure of 
> artistic authenticity. That's not where history decides the winners and 
> losers in the art game. It's the institutions and the money people who 
> always keep 
> score in my view.
> 

Well, then I suppose a lot of OKOM is now considered Art since it is being 
sold on PBS television shows all across the USA , not Dixieland, but Rhythm and 
Blues and not long ago they were finally giving Doo Wop and Jazz and Early 
Rock & Roll Artistic credibility and acceptance by producing shows in recent 
years  of the old time performers who could still get up and do it.

How come no Dixielanders signed up for the shows ???


Musical content:
"This Little Light of Mine I ain't gonna let it shine"

Thinking deeper today :))   But then again maybe I dug the hole too deep and 
I have fallen in. :))

Tom Wiggins