MUSI 1002 Lecture 7:
12 Feb 2019
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Black people not being properly recognized and respected in mainstream culture. There has never been any tradition in jazz other than that to ensure black culture expression is depreciated and undervalued. The original dixieland jass band was the band that made the first jazz recordings in 1917. Livery stable blues became the first jazz record. Genealogy and lineage don"t matter within jazz. Tradition is based on politics in the european aesthetic. Europeans were simultaneously carrying out the most heinous crimes ever committed against humanity. And though the europeans were the perpetrators, it was those they captured who were criminalized. Ancestry is what governs art in african culture. So far, the furthest back historians been able to go with jaz is on a business card by a creole musician by the name of jimmy palao. I don"t think that the selling of the art is the issue. It"s the forces that control the system under which it"s sold that creates conflict.
