[lbo-talk] Paglia on Gaga

[Dennis Perrin]

When I first moved to NYC in '82, I had digested as much punk/new wave as I 
could stand. No Wave was recent, but I didn't get into that until later. 
What I did get into was 20's jazz and pop, courtesy of a stage/TV actor I 
got to know through improv. He only listened to 78s on a Victrola, but man, 
what a lost world. McKinney's Cotton Pickers, King Oliver, Sidney Bechet, 
Jelly Roll Morton, young Louis Armstrong and his Hot Fives, and a host of 
male and female singers who never achieved notoriety, but who performed with 
passion. It was an education, the very reason why I moved from the Midwest 
in the first place.

Doug's right: look through the canon. There's a gold mine.

Dennis