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On
a day in May 1938, Jelly Roll Morton entered the Library
of Congress where recording apparatus -- it electrically
humming -- had been prepared. This was great among the
meetings ever of folk art and the academy. Like Chopin or
Burns meditating on country airs, the equipment of the
cultured was being directed at an urchin music that was
dancing through the streets. It was dancing on victrolas
and radiolas and it was in turn upturning the apple cart
of what was art. Alan Lomax was interviewing Jelly Roll
Morton. |
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