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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Jazz and/in US society
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Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 17:28:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 16 17:28:49 1984
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Why does jazz not sell millions of LPs? Barring that, why does
this music not have a comittment from the music business establishment
to keep it active and alive, a la classical music, which does not
sell either???

Here is an American art form (the ONLY one!) that the crushing majority
of Americans ignores often proudly so, dismissing it as abstruse,
obscure and boring? The same people *often* know little if
anything about classical music, but classical music is "cultured",
while jazz is "obscure"

Could it be that US society is not ready to accept (after 100 years)
a music in which all major innovators have been black
(after all these Negroes all got rhythm :-)

Flames, agreement and other comments are welcome, that will mean
someone is interested

					Marcel Simon
					mhuxr!mfs
"Think of all the things you could be by now if Sigmund Freud's
wife was your mother"	Charles Mingus song title