ODJB "Palestina"

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

I was listening to my local jazz station tonight and, on their traditionalist 
program, I heard "Palestina," a 1920 recording by the Original Dixieland Jazz 
Band.  The piece went back and forth between sounding quite a bit like 
contemporaneous klez recordings and "Darktown Strutters Ball," fascinating at 
least in its sociohistorical context.  The DJ, who is very knowlegeable about 
early jazz, described it as a marvelous example of faux oriental exotica, but 
gave no indication of the allusions to klez that were sa obvious to me.  Anyone 
know anything about it?

 

Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music
Adjunct Professor of American Studies
University of Minnesota
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