Re: Klezmer & jazz

[Matthew H. Fields <fields...>]

In article <1993Apr29(dot)105851(dot)49641 (at) kuhub(dot)cc(dot)ukans(dot)edu> 
miner (at) kuhub(dot)cc(dot)ukans(dot)edu writes:
>I've long suspected that jazz as we know it today comes not only "up
>the river from New Orleans" but also owes something to Klezmer.  If
>this isn't total nonsense, can anybody suggest some reading on it?

Funny, I've long suspected that Klezmer as we hear it today not only comes
from the shtetl but also owes something to Afro-American musics (here I
use American to refer to both continents).  Reality may be that there's been
a complicated exchange over the years, much as Minstrel theater and
Vaudeville theater had (I'm talking 19th-century here)...

To stretch a point . _ ____   :-)
a friend of mine was listening to a Barry White song the other day,
and came to the lines "I just can't quit/'Cuz quitting just ain't my shtik"
and was surprised to hear that shtik came not from some forgotten tongue
south of Chad, but from Yiddish (and thence from the German Stueck).

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