{"id":11,"date":"2004-03-08T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2014-03-06T07:40:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:40:47","slug":"reading-ingrid-monsons-the-african-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Reading Ingrid Monson&#8217;s The African Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the context of globalization and music, I happened on this book by the sometime cornetist of the Klezmer Conservatory Band. Some nice tidbits:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhotjazz.com\/mitchellsjk.html\">Mitchell&#8217;s Jazz Kings<\/a> recorded in the early 1920s in Paris (a bunch of .ram exampes available on the page). The site notes that <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 1920s the Jazz Kings played a five year residency at the Casino de Paris. Mitchell had his own American restaurant called Mitchell&#8217;s in Montmartre and helped Bricktop (Ada Smith-Ducong\u00e9) set up her first club, The Music Box in Paris&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stephane Grappelli remembers that the first jazz tune he heard was Zez Confrey&#8217;s &#8220;Stumblin&#8217; &#8220;, played by Mitchell&#8217;s Jazz Kings&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeromeharris.com\/thelatest\/keyinfo.cfm?ArticleID=21\">Harris<\/a> <i>in<\/i> Monson 2003:109)<br \/>\nHarris goes on to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jazz has, throughout its history, held appeal for people from many different societies and from different places within society, including at its margins. It is rooted in &#8211;and is a manifestation of&#8211; the human ability to redefine marginality as a &#8220;location of radical openness and possibility&#8221; (hooks 1990:153)&#8230; (Harris <i>in<\/i> Monson 2003:123)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the context of globalization and music, I happened on this book by the sometime cornetist of the Klezmer Conservatory Band. Some nice tidbits: Mitchell&#8217;s Jazz Kings recorded in the early 1920s in Paris (a bunch of .ram exampes available on the page). The site notes that In the 1920s the Jazz Kings played a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musics","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}