Sike, I still like it

  • wild_dog [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Perspective: Nobody gave a shit whether Louis Armstrong or the Andrews Sisters wrote their own material.

    perspective: the first recorded Jazz album in history was a white band stealing music from Black jazz bands so maybe people should have cared about this stuff earlier.

    • wrecker_vs_dracula [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      ...unless you consider the ~1915 Jelly Roll Morton piano rolls to be the first jazz recordings. But that's semantics. As jazz became a popular music, the trend of performing popular songs in a jazz style became very common for working bands.

      • wild_dog [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        well obviously playing standards has been a big part of jazz (and lots of other styles of music) but i'm just saying there's legitimate non-boomer circumstances in which it makes sense to care about people becoming popular playing music they didn't write.

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          Yeah but one thing is sone craker stealing culture and other is someonw paying someone else to write them a good song