[Dixielandjazz] The not so authentic 1920s music

[David Dustin]

Aloha Rose wrote --

I've seen many brutally candid and testosterone driven responses here and
wonder why the 'netique'
lesson is only pulled out for *ladies* in a snit.

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Incorrect.  Go back a couple months in the musty DJML archives. You are by
no means being singled out for special treatment. I¹ve been spanked too and
am not usually accused of being lady-like in demeanor or endocrinology.
Brother Ringwald has an equal opportunity library of hortatory missives at
the ready.

I don¹t buy your fastidiousness about musical authenticity. If you want to
be Alan Lomax redux, fine, but entertainment is entertainment, not
scholarship.  In the end, it¹s all about whether a song makes the listener
happy or not when they hear it, not whether you have flatted the fifth at
the right spot (oops, wrong genre!) or trotted out an impeccable playlist of
Tin Pan Alley detritus from the 1920s when you could have been giving them
Bill Bailey, The Music Goes Round and Round, the Washington & Lee Swing,
Dinah, and Riverboat Shuffle.

David Dustin