Lecture 5
Hentoff and Shapiro readings - J. leaves birthplace and moves on. What made NO music so special out of all the forms of Negro music at time? Interviews give some key - music ed in NO for kids was like sports ed. There were lots of chances to make money at music at time = so this was focus of education. Music and musicians everyone, was a way to make a living. Or to supplement their income. Kids with talent were encouraged - like sports today, virtousity in context of broader society - like basketball, takes a team effort, so you need people with various skills to make a team. We celebrate these abilities = "stars' have proffiency in perhaps more than one area.
Good sports teams have mutil stars that can do more than one thing. So - NO music, shared playing and virtuosity to team affort. Aethetic that said "those folks play well together". Great bands saw great bands mesh to form a whole. In african american society - still case in basketball, but died in most music. Hot-hip maybe, but not the virtuosity. If it were - it would be like crossing innovation of Rap with virtuosity of opera.
J not about what you can do individually, but as part of a team in particular. We win or loose togehter. Mutt Carey talked of taking on Kinng Oliver or fred Keppert. Battles of marching bands on flat -beds, competing with "hottest" band having the greatest crowds that night. Would vary week to week. Competetive performance was strong ethos of Jazz. "Cutting contests" - the "kings" would win these.
What happened to J in 1970's? Best tonight, winner take all. You got to be the king. The king was usually a trumpeter or coronet player. Music was competitive, played to please an audience.
J as personified in early 20t cent = Louis Armstrong - was a great performer in addition to virtuosity. You won a cutting contest because you were the better entertainer at that time - the most dancable music. Always an audience. J was first ethos that was audience-centered.
Grass-roots and entrpreneurial - drugs in ??NO - not like today. Vice was at a lower level but still there, sailors.
Burned over district in NO - (seen in religion) - kids in strong music culture learned to apprentice music from musiciasns around. Kids start playing to get some attention. Although blk msuic in other places, not the "burned over" intensity of NO.
Jelly Roll in St Louis - also a great music town, so goes and doesn't show himself to be a pianist at first, but so much more virtual - in St. Louis, his superior ability made people angry, put people off in Kansas City, until he got to Chicago where there were also ex-pat NO muscians. In other cities, SL, KC - have music, but not the all-life culture of NO.
Riverboats - Streckfus, exported music out of Chicago, NO. Fred Kepprt didn't want to record b/c he didn't want someone to steal his sound. In NO there was a fear of competition. Riverboats were a great opportunity for music- lots of chance to dance all night in summer on boats - go up and down the river. NO music went all over - but really took root in Chicago.
Good sports teams have mutil stars that can do more than one thing. So - NO music, shared playing and virtuosity to team affort. Aethetic that said "those folks play well together". Great bands saw great bands mesh to form a whole. In african american society - still case in basketball, but died in most music. Hot-hip maybe, but not the virtuosity. If it were - it would be like crossing innovation of Rap with virtuosity of opera.
J not about what you can do individually, but as part of a team in particular. We win or loose togehter. Mutt Carey talked of taking on Kinng Oliver or fred Keppert. Battles of marching bands on flat -beds, competing with "hottest" band having the greatest crowds that night. Would vary week to week. Competetive performance was strong ethos of Jazz. "Cutting contests" - the "kings" would win these.
What happened to J in 1970's? Best tonight, winner take all. You got to be the king. The king was usually a trumpeter or coronet player. Music was competitive, played to please an audience.
J as personified in early 20t cent = Louis Armstrong - was a great performer in addition to virtuosity. You won a cutting contest because you were the better entertainer at that time - the most dancable music. Always an audience. J was first ethos that was audience-centered.
Grass-roots and entrpreneurial - drugs in ??NO - not like today. Vice was at a lower level but still there, sailors.
Burned over district in NO - (seen in religion) - kids in strong music culture learned to apprentice music from musiciasns around. Kids start playing to get some attention. Although blk msuic in other places, not the "burned over" intensity of NO.
Jelly Roll in St Louis - also a great music town, so goes and doesn't show himself to be a pianist at first, but so much more virtual - in St. Louis, his superior ability made people angry, put people off in Kansas City, until he got to Chicago where there were also ex-pat NO muscians. In other cities, SL, KC - have music, but not the all-life culture of NO.
Riverboats - Streckfus, exported music out of Chicago, NO. Fred Kepprt didn't want to record b/c he didn't want someone to steal his sound. In NO there was a fear of competition. Riverboats were a great opportunity for music- lots of chance to dance all night in summer on boats - go up and down the river. NO music went all over - but really took root in Chicago.
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