[Dixielandjazz] Cartoon Music

[Robert S. Ringwald]

Steve Barbone wrote, regarding "cartoon music":

 > Gee Whiz guys, you unfairly paint Wiggins and me as dissing cartoon
music,
(snip)

 Steve,

As an advertising man, you must see that classifying really good 1920s Jazz
as Cartoon Music could be construed as demeaning.

Sure, it was used as background music in cartoons but to call it cartoon
music belittles it.  It was good Jazz that just happened to be used to back
up cartoons.

By the same token, Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" written in 1902 and some
other of Joplin's compositions were used     in the 1973 film "The Sting."
But you would not classify Joplin's music as movie music or film music.

Best,

--Bob Ringwald