The further I've gotten into the Jean Boyd "Southwestern Jazz" book, the
more the attitude of the thing has made it unpleasantsometimes it does
look simply like a "sticking to my thesis no matter what" problem, which
was what I'd called it being charitable, but by the 38th time she praises
Barry Mazor wrote:
The further I've gotten into the Jean Boyd "Southwestern Jazz" book, the
more the attitude of the thing has made it unpleasantsometimes it does
look simply like a "sticking to my thesis no matter what" problem, which
was what I'd called it being charitable, but by
I'm interested to hear about that too; I've not read it--but then, it's
only out a couple of weeks. I do know that the writer is a professor with
a lot of non-fiction under his belt concerning California, especially lives
of working class Californians, and that he even wrote a story collection
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Barry Mazor wrote:
...the
book "The Jazz of the Southwest: An Oral History of Western Swing" by
Jean A. Boydhas much to say about how Western
Swing is jazz at its root, underappreciated jazz, and maybe underplays
the country side in saying so...
And the
I only want to add that the effort has some value anyway--mainly by way of
all those interviews lurking behind the "Oral History" part of the title.
The tendency to avoid calling the country aspect of Western Swing country
strikes me, in reading this, more on the lines of "I've gotta have an
Hey there,
Barry reads...
While we're at it, I'd mention that what I AM reading right now, the
book "The Jazz of the Southwest: An Oral History of Western Swing" by
Jean A. Boyd,
And the book was panned for doing just that by some western swing expert
(Kevin Coffey? Cary Ginell?) in a recent
