Re: burn's significance

From: aspeitia axel arturo barcelo (abarcelo@indiana.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 22:45:20 CET

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    I agree strongly with Mr. Witherspoon. Introductions must always be held
    to the highestt standards be in History or in any other discipline. Much
    more damage is done by a flawed introductory text than by a dozen flawed
    specialist's articles, because their influence is stronger and wider.

    axel

    On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Jason Witherspoon wrote:

    > At 01:40 PM 2/12/01 -0600, Danny Kramer wrote:
    > >burns series was for jazz beginners, didnt pretend to be anything but. and
    > >in response to the series, i have overheard conversations on jazz from
    > >many unlikely corners - local television talking about the jazz scene in
    > >the community (chicago), jazz cd displays up in the front of music shops
    > >like virgin, tower, borders - selling much jazz.
    > >
    > >and that's very cool.
    > >
    > >you know there's gonna be a lean towards the people who actually send in
    > >something when pbs does its membership drives -- aka the 'hello dolly'
    > >crowd. would i love to see an entire episode dedicated to grover
    > >washington, jr or the blackbyrds? you know it - but the more jazz on
    > >mainstream tv the better. its not for me, its for (a generic)
    > >them. ramsey needs to relax. i mean, please.
    > >
    > >nuff 'said.
    >
    > Okay-- how would you feel if it was your life's work that got shitcanned in
    > the last episode?
    >
    > And the fact that it's for beginners makes it okay for them to pollute
    > neophytes' minds w/the notion that 70's jazz is a bunch of crap? The fact
    > that it is for beginners just makes their heavy-handed bias, & their
    > slagging of music they don't "get", that much worse.

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