Re: defining klezmer

[Huppert23 <Huppert23...>]

In a message dated 2/20/00 10:45:47 AM, ari (at) ivritype(dot)com writes:

<< And it is certainly more useful more often to explain klezmer without 
emphasizing the word's linguistic roots. I mean, how many people can recite 
the linguistic roots of "Jazz" or "pop" (beyond being short for "popular," 
which is derived from what?).
 >>

You are making my point here better than I did. Maybe I should have asked you 
to say it for me in the first place.

I think I heard somewhere that "jazz" started out as a sexually explicit 
term--as did "rock and roll." I never hear people defining those musical 
terms by stating their original meanings, though, even though they presumably 
came from English, and not so long ago.

Josh

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