Ken Restivo wrote:
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:52:57PM -1000, david wrote:
Brent Busby wrote:
If the current system of complete bombardment and brainwashing
is allowed to continue unchecked we are all complicit in the
results.
I don't mean to be offensive, but that does sound an awful lot
like what parents were saying when Elvis came out. :)
I studied and played ragtime quite a bit. That was the "popular
music" my grandmother loved when she was young. One time when I was
playing some ragtime at her house, she came over and said, "Oh,
you're playing that dirty ragtime music." That was what her parents
had said about ragtime when it was popular!
Yes, wasn't it the music of whorehouses? The piano player would sit
there in the parlor, striding away, while the gentlemen were waiting
for appointments or flirting with the ladies.
Ragtime was always dance music. Not so much whorehouses as bars and
clubs. Black in the beginning until musicians noticed that white folk
would pay for it! ;-)
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David
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