[Dixielandjazz] Re: Elevator music - Jazz?

[Bob Loomis]

   Yes, I certainly agree that it changes ... all
an old fart (Oops! There's that thread again!)
can do is sit on the porch and watch ... and
listen ... and chuckle (sometimes ruefully) ...

Bob Loomis
Concord CA


--- mmckay <macjazz at se.rr.com> wrote:

>  Interesting and accurate observation.  The
> real question is, is this bad or
> is it just not what the older generation
> expects.  I'm sure for instance,
> that they made the same complaint when radio
> et.al. replaced sheet music and
> the parlor piano.
> 
> I agree that not all progress is "progress,"
> but it still advances just the
> same.
> 
> Mart
> 
> Martin D. McKay, Designated listener
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
> [mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com]
> On Behalf Of Bob Loomis
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 9:43 AM
> To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Elevator music -
> Jazz?
> 
> Japanese essayist wrote:
> 
>    "On the other hand, especially with the
> advent of music videos, the
> American ears are getting lazier and lazier.
> Not so long ago in Western
> history, most people knew how to play a musical
> instrument or two. Now the
> vast majority couldn't tell the difference
> between a saxophone and a
> trumpet. The American culture is so visually
> dominant that given a piece of
> music without anything visual associated with
> it, most people's eyes wander
> around nervously, just like the way a nervous
> speaker doesn't know what to
> do with his hands."
> 
>    IMHO this is true in areas other than jazz.
> I had a friend over recently
> and explained that we would be listening to an
> installment of Prairie Home
> Companion, one I really wanted to listen to.
>  He just couldn't keep still, kept talking
> through everything and I finally
> gave up and listened to the rebroadcast the
> next morning. 
>    I've also noticed that younger folks have no
> concept of just listening to
> the radio, they have to have something more
> going on and they do not listen
> closely. I suspect this and the fact that very
> few people (as a percentage
> of population) carefully read newspapers
> anymore account partially for the
> current political trend in our nation. If
> anyone were listening closely and
> comparing what's said with what's reality, all
> the rascals would have been
> thrown out long ago ... then again, maybe not
> ...
> 
> Bob Loomis
> Concord CA
>  
> 
>
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