--- kurt <supine@bway.net> wrote:
quoted 6 lines But what the hell was Glenn Miller supposed to do?
>But what the hell was Glenn Miller supposed to do?
> Swing was the most exciting thing to come down the pike in the '30's,
> and he ran with it. Was his crime that his band was (unfortunately)
> one of the successful few? Should he have restrained himself? We he
> supposed to be Woody Guthrie instead?
>
How about hiring some black musicians? Most of the swing bands led by
White bandleaders only employed white musicians (bar a few honourable
exceptions). Stealing the music is one thing but then operating a
colour bar when hiring musicinas is quite another.
Matt.
np. Gato Barbiera - Bolivia
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