RE: Meaning of "Klezmer"

[Velaires <Velaires...>]

That's my point exactly.  The minute you say "entertainment", there's a line 
drawn in the consumer mind.  Offering up someone else's work as 
"entertainment" is the same as saying "mere entertainment".  

I don't respect categories and genre-orientation.  It would seem to me some 
of the most groundbreaking music ever -- Carl Stalling, for instance -- was 
made in the service of entertainment, and some of the least challenging -- 
Marilyn Manson, for instance -- posing as some kind of "art statement".  

But it's not my job to think up categories by which other people's work can 
be dismissed as somehow "not serious enough".

sh

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