Re: Skip H on Authenticity

[Matt Jaffey <mjaffey2...>]

Skip,

Was this a response to anything I said recently? I don't get the
connection. Regarding your words:

<<These arguments about authenticity being based on the playing heard from
records made by the 1945 rarely occur outside of ethnic music.>>

which arguments were you refering to?

Matt

At 03:53 PM 2/19/2000 EST, you wrote:
>Authenticity is probably best defined as sounding like you sound because you 
>want to, instead of sounding like you've been told is the correct way to 
>sound because some toady has a party line to enforce, anyway.
>
>I don't think Tarras sounded appreciably like Brandwine.  And I don't think 
>Statman sounds like either.  But they all register on my little emotional 
>geigercounter.  And I'm certainly not wrong for this.
>
>These arguments about authenticity being based on the playing heard from 
>records made by the 1945 rarely occur outside of ethnic music.  I have never 
>heard anybody say Dizzy Gillespie didn't refer enough to Louis Armstrong to 
>be considered the "true" jazz.  Nor have I heard anyone say that Stevie 
>Wonder didn't refer to Louis Jordan enough to be considered the "true" 
>rhythm'n'blues.  Jewishness has endured and developed past Yiddishness, 
>although Yiddishness still plays a part.  If music is a language beyond 
>words, why should it be fenced into rules more stringent than language held 
>to words?
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>skip h
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