[Dixielandjazz] PC lyrics

Mike mike at railroadstjazzwest.com
Tue Jul 25 08:49:15 PDT 2006


Edwin,

   I totally understand my friend. While some early jazz has it's 
questionable lyrics, rap music clearly steps way over the line. The 
older blues and jazz tunes you knew what they are saying and it might 
have made you raise an eyebrow. Rap lyrics are much more violent and in 
your face.

Good day
Mike



EDWIN COLTRIN wrote:
> Mike, I wasn't advocating the use of non-PC lyrics. Only commenting upon the prevalence  of the tone of music during the early period. 
>    
>   I have the Circle series of JRM LoC records, and had made notation on the disc regarding comments which were not considered polite for the more genteel ears of that time. I played these recorde for several different groups at parties and knew that he records had to have been "cleaned-up"
>    
>   I now possess the Rounder set. JRM doesn't hold back, and the pre -60s language was as coarse as the lyrics of the time.  One only needs to look at the pidgin language of Hawaii describing the nationalities, the use of descriptive words that I was exposed to during the war, covering all races. Of course the venacular on some of my early 78s.
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>   I don't advocate the use of objectionable words purely for shock, however bowing to the PC crowd, there should be some latitude.
>    
>   Music has always been somewhat of a recorder of it's time. As diverse as the record shops of the 30s/40s, where you had to go to a race record shop to get records of black performers, some of the lyrics at that time were somewhat raunchy. But that was the way it was.
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>   Slainte
>    
>   Ye Olde Mouldy Fygge
>    
>   Ed Cotrin
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