>>169515>Oh lol. I admiteddly don't know much jazz from that time period but would love to hear more about it.The jazz that was popular with the white public listened to was generally adulterated compared to Dixieland jazz or what blacks were doing. It was largely poppy dance music with Tin Pan Alley songwriters penning the songs, and "trad jazz" snobs often will decry people like Paul Whiteman. The fact that it's watered down doesn't bother me in and of itself, since traits like improvisation being toned down make it more appealing to me.
>Yeah it is strange hearing recordings from pre 1940's for me. You can hear it was a whole different world, it bleeds into the music almost.That's turned up to 11 with music from before the era of electrical recording. It sounds so foreign and genuinely ghostly. I like listening to recordings going all the way back to the 19th century. It might sound weird to say, but listening to stuff as lo-fi as Pure Fucking Armageddon in high school prepared me to be able to old Vess L. Ossman recordings and actually enjoy them. The hardest part of listening to music that old for me is the vocals. Back in the acoustic era, singers could sound like they were on TV hawking cleaning products over a commercial break. Someone like Gene Austin is much easier to take than, say, Billy Murray. Even the singing from after that time can take some getting used to though.
One of the things I like about recordings that are that old is just how much they feel like a window into a different world.
>Yeah isn't it cool with artists can switch up and play wildly differnt styles like that?Raymond Scott was even working with Motown at one point. They were going to use his Electronium, but he never actually got anywhere with it.
>Some blind, poor black man playing guitar badly and wailing about his ex breaking his heart is just sad man, I don't wanna gawk at that and huff his farts and elevate him to some undeserved cultural icon status! It's genuinely exploitative in some cases, not like whatever faux-oppresion these types cry about.I never really thought about that, but it is kind of patronizing now that you mention it. I get that fame is ultimately fleeting, but does anyone really believe that those guys are g
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