[Dixielandjazz] Uptown/downtown idea's origin

Butch Thompson butte1 at mac.com
Tue Oct 16 19:53:06 PDT 2007


I've always thought the Uptown/Downtown New Orleans thing started with Alan
Lomax, who waxed poetic on the idea of "cultural ecstasy" in his book Mister
Jelly Roll, published in 1950.   Anybody know of any earlier?

Butch Thompson 





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