[Dixielandjazz] Coloniser's & Marching Bands. was backbeat v Downbeat

[David Richoux]

There is an interesting article about this song at
http://www.kitchenmusician.net/smoke/worldupside.html  (with some of  
the stuff I didn't want to re-type ;-)

Dave RIchoux

On May 18, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Stephen G Barbone wrote:

>>  "pj.ladd" <pj.ladd at btinternet.com> wrote, (polite snip)
>
>> What happens when a coloniser is in turn
>> colonised. Do they issue new music to their bands?
>
> Good question Pat. I surely don't know. Perhaps when a colonizer is  
> defeated by the colonies, the colonizer band already has the music  
> for it? Like "The World Turned Upside Down", which General  
> Cornwallis's Marching Band played during the surrender ceremony to  
> the Yanks at Yorktown Virginia circa 1781.
>
> That battle, and song, effectively ended the American Revolution  
> and the final Treaty of Paris granting the American Colonies  
> Independence was signed two years later in 1783.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone (who just spent the weekend with his niece's in-laws  
> who are from York in the UK)
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