BL ST 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sidney Bechet, Lorenzo Tio, Louis Armstrong
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What happens to these bodies after commercially sanctified? . Borderlands theory: at jazz as in part a mestizaje, a space that is not black and/or white, but more complicated. Borderlands is a place where the criminal, discarded, unwanted, queer, disinherited congregate and make culture. Consider possibilities that lie outside traditional (binary) racial categories. Mexicans borderlands bands (1884 cotton exposition) carnival! Mexican gov"t sent people to represent mexicans, some stayed taught black musicians (classical players, clarinet) Clarinet masters from new orleans" creole seventh ward. Taught first generation of jazz players value of using classical technique in their play. Relationship of negotiating african, french, and mexican cultural influences to the emergence of the jazz soloist. New orleans a center of trade with mexico and latin america. Cotton, paper, coal exports, importing sugar, coffee, fruit. Soloist is able to generate an individuality that is still in conversation with the collective rhythm propulsion of the jazz band.
