[Dixielandjazz] FW: Re: Disavowing our roots

[Steve Voce]

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On 16 Jan 2013, at 09:34, "Brian Havey" <sweet.figlio at btinternet.com> wrote:

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> For years I insisted that every live band I paid to see had to have a banjo.
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> Brian Harvey

.....and you used to wet yourself when I twitted you abut the fact.

Steve Voce

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> From: Anton Crouch [mailto:anton.crouch at optusnet.com.au] 
> Sent: 15 January 2013 07:55
> To: ♫ Sharp Bill - - B# ♫
> Cc: Brian Havey; Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Disavowing our roots
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> Hello all
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> I agree with Brian Harvey on this issue and think that Bill Sharp is a touch unreasonable. Why?
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> 1. Those who now play OKOM are not "historians" in any sense that a scholar would use the word. "Re-enactment" is useful and brings out the element of cultural preservation. Re-enactment illuminates the facts of history but it is not, in itself, history.
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> 2. "Laws", as Bill shows, are actually  by-laws or a charter and depend on interpretation of phrases such as "Dixieland Jazz Music". Think of all the fun and games we've had on DJML with the interpretation of such phrases.
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> 3. Brian argues for an evolutionary approach - note his use of the word "diversity".
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> 4. What do people have against Cajun?  :-)                  Musicologically it is of interest to jazz enthusiasts - remember that it started as French/African dance music in Louisiana. Does this origin sound familiar?
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> 5. Louis Armstrong and yodeling - right-on. Remember Blue yodel number 9, Los Angeles, 16 July 1930. OK - I'm joking, but you get the idea.
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> All the best,
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> On 15/01/2013 08:15, ♫ Sharp Bill - - B# ♫ wrote (in part):
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> Brian,
> so, after pulling my head out of the sand, and removing the blinders, you are obviously saying that we should now diversify and bring cajun, rock and roll, be-bop and perhaps even rap into our midst so as to survive.  If  King Oliver, Jelly Roll Norton and Louis Armstrong were alive today that is what they would be doing, in order to propagate diversity. Perhaps Louie, to truly diversify,  would include yodeling.    In that case throw out what has been called Our Kind Of Music, as there would no longer be such a thing. 
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