[Dixielandjazz] Cartoon Music

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hi Bob:

I have to disagree with your respectfully about not calling Joplin's 
music Movie music or film music,  They did issue an Album of the 
Soundtrack from the movie that sold very well and popularized the music 
of Scott Joplin all over again :))

Yes it was done by the Marketing Division and if someone feels that 
calling that genre of Jazz, Cartoon Music is demeaning then THEY have  
a  sensitivity problem and perhaps should think about their approach to 
Jazz and it's marketing so as not to be so sensitive about what a great 
many who grew up listening to that style of Jazz, and their first and 
sometimes Only exposure to Jazz relate to it as.  They actually might 
like it, but just don't relate to it as the end to all Jazz and being 
HOT JAZZ.   Especially any Jazz players who came along after 1960.


For those who enjoy that style and wish to play it, I say wonderful, 
but don't expect the rest of the Jazz world to embrace it as Hot Jazz, 
it just ain't likely to happen, from the current and future 
generations.   The folks who most like it are long gone or soon to be 
gone unfortunately.   They don't even make cartoons like they used to. 
:))   And I don't watch them anymore either except for the classics 
with my grandkids.   I hate Yukio !   But love Wiley Coyote  and the  
ACME STORES, :))


Just my thoughts about it.

Tom Wiggins


-----Original Message-----
From: robert at ringwald.com
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Cartoon Music

   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





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