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Thread #97159   Message #1908215
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
13-Dec-06 - 05:46 AM
Thread Name: Is Trad Jazz part of the Folk Scene
Subject: RE: Is Trad Jazz part of the Folk Scene
No what I was saying was that middle class young college kids read about the sporting houses in New Orleans - Mr Jelly Roll and all that, and having no experience of black people - they got a romanticised view of them, through the lyrics and literature of trad jazz.

I think that was the romantic view of the music. maybe I'm wrong - it was slightly before my time as an adult.