[Dixielandjazz] More on the History of Jazz

[Gluetje1 at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/17/2006 3:58:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time, Gluetje1  
writes:

 
You had it right at least twice in yesterdays post, Steve.  Below is  what 
that post said about Egypt, right? and Babylon (yesterday's post)  was 50 miles 
south of modern Baghdad.
Ginny
 
In a message dated 7/17/2006 9:33:06 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
barbonestreet at earthlink.net writes:

The  musical forms of the Arab and Islamic world are the predominant form  of
music in Egypt in its recent history (two millennia is recent to  an
historian). However, there is some weight to the idea that Arabic  musical
forms are in fact the product of ancient Egyptian musical forms.  The Arabic
forms are the most easily accessible for study and their basic  traits have
continued relatively unchanged for several  centuries.