on 12/19/03 12:24 PM, David Beardsley at db@biink.com wrote:
CuneiWay@aol.com wrote:
Bless the libraries.
Being in South Philly circa 1976 (not a bastion of enlightenment by any standards, except those of a hockey fan), our libraroes were quite quite the cultural havens that others enjoyed. Most of the LPs were Eugene ormandy/Phila Orch classical recordings. Occasionally, something like the Columbia 50 YEARS OF JAZZ GUITAR set or THE WORLD OF JOHNNY CASH would find their way in, and I took those records out over and over again. Books on the performing arts were relatively scarce -- mostly movie star bios -- but one book that I loved (and eventually stole) was Pete Seeger's THE INCOMPLEAT FOLKSINGER, which I think is one of the fascinating books about music in the 1960s. nother book they had that I read a few times was LeRoi Jones' BLACK MUSIC, which then I suspected was largely some guy raving. His dismissal of a pre-Miles Wayne Shorter (and the book was written before Wayne joined Miles) is hilarious in retrospect. My wife is now getting her master's in library science. Please don;t tell her about the Seeger book. skip h