[Dixielandjazz] tv series

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

the important lesson I learned watching this series really helped me get
over the popular conception that jazz is not "pop" -- and I'm thankful for
that now.  In the documentary they draw a clear line from bawdy music-hall
burlesque traditions of Victorian stage directly to today's big stars, and
it's no great jump, it is a smooth progression, same halls, same promoters,
same performers, step by step.

The original *meaning* of 'burlesque' was not strippers but farce, having
the poor and uneducated (and unskilled) dolting about up on stage while
being hooted and laughed at as they did their utmost most absurdist
rendition of how they perceived the rich and educated classes. It has
nothing to do with art, it has everything to do with humour, a sort of
celebration of the ignorance in which the poor are largely left to
flounder, done by lampooning those priviledged to be artists.

Think about that. Then think, "Rolling Stones" vs Muddy Waters, or Led
Zepplin vs their bassist's father's Ambrose Orchestra: Pop is *meant* to be
a parody, a spectacular, gaudy, bawdy peacock strut for an audience
zealously imbibing of mind-altering substances, it is an escapist theatre,
it has *nothing* *whatsoever* to do with music, although, admittedly, many
musicians were drawn into the pop burlesque world simply because it was, or
rather it *appeared* to be, highly lucrative.

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Charles Suhor <csuhor at zebra.net> wrote:

> Below is the Wikipedia entry for the 17-part TV series on the evolution of
> popular music, of which "All You Need is Love" was a part. Wiki's entry for
> Tony Palmer describes him as a major bio filmmaker. I haven't seen any of
> the popular music series, but some of the script writers include Leonard
> Feather (who was no friend of trad jazz) and super-traditionalist Rudi
> Blesh. Just looking at some the juxtapositions of names included in the
> right hand columns (and some of the omissions) made me wince, but I wonder
> how they were used in the actual narrative. Odd: Bop and modern jazz get no
> mention--because they weren't "popular" music?
>
> It was a longterm project  released in 1976, so today's perspectives would
> of course differ. And remember, when Ken Burns did his recent jazz history
> series, almost nobody gave him better than a gentleman's C.
>
> Charlie Suhor
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Love:_The_Story_of_Popular_Music
> On Sep 9, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Jim Kashishian wrote:
>
> > I watched a program called "All You Need Is Love" which was advertised as
> > being "Tony Palmer's epic series" on Jazz.  The fact that he used a
> Beatles
> > song title for a Jazz show tells it all.
> >
> > There were comments by prominent jazzers such as Dizzy, Hoagie, etc., but
> > many of the comments were strange & didn't fit into any of the things we
> all
> > assumed about the beginnings of Jazz.  The notes on the series actually
> said
> > that it "reveals that New Orleans may have stolen the limelight when it
> > comes to the origin of Jazz".
> >
> > The comments made follow along the lines recently discussed here on djml
> > about where the word Jazz came from.  The fact that the weirdly put
> together
> > hour long show was "from a script by Leonard Feather" raised my eyebrows
> > evern further.  They were already practically up to my hairline!
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this show?
> >
> > Jim
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