Tea dance
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| + | "[[Duke Ellington|Ellington]]'s fame is now such that he gives [[Carnegie Hall]] concerts of a [[swing music|swing]] completely divorced from dance function, a ''[[Tea dance|tea dansant]]'' music trapped out with his borrowed effects from [[jazz]], the [[Impressionism in music|Impressionists]], and the [[Romantic music|French Romantics]]. Some hail him as a foremost genius of [[modern music]], a few lament that "the Duke has forsaken jazz." Both are wrong: the laurels of [[Paul Hindemith|Hindemith]], [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]], and [[Béla Bartók|Bartok]] are safe and, as for jazz, the Duke has never played it."--''[[Shining Trumpets, a History of Jazz]]'' (1946) by Rudi Blesh, p. 281 | ||
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| - | '''Moldy figs''' are purist advocates of early [[jazz]], originally those such as [[Rudi Blesh]], [[Alan Lomax]], and [[James Jones (author)|James Jones]], who argued that jazz took a wrong turn in the early 1920s with developments such as the introduction of printed [[sheet music|scores]]. Blesh, for example, dismissed the work of [[Duke Ellington]] as "[[tea dance|tea dansant]] music" with no jazz content whatever. | ||
| - | The term was later used by the [[bebop]]pers with reference to those who preferred older jazz to bebop. During the post-[[World War II]] era there was something of a revival of [[trad jazz|"traditional" jazz]], and bebop displaced [[Swing music|swing]] as the "modern" music to which it was contrasted. More recently, [[Gene Santoro]] has referred to [[Wynton Marsalis]] and others, who embrace bebop but not other forms of jazz that followed it, as "latter-day moldy figs", with bebop now lying on the side of "jazz tradition". | + | A '''tea dance''', also called a '''''thé dansant''''' (French for "dancing tea"), was a dance held in the summer or autumn from 4 to 7 p.m. In the English countryside, a garden party sometimes preceded the dance. |
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| - | Although the term was originally a pejorative, it has at times been embraced by [[trad jazz]] fans and players. | + | * [[Tea party]] |
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| - | In [[Stan Freberg]]'s recorded comedy sketch "[[Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years|Yankee Doodle Go Home]]", the fife player isn't happy with the drummer. "No, I mean when I accepted the gig I didn't know I was going to play fife with the kind of ''moldy fig'' drumming like what is going on up ahead there, man." | + | * [[Hyatt Regency walkway collapse]], a structural failure occurred during a hotel tea dance event with over 1,500 people attending. |
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"Ellington's fame is now such that he gives Carnegie Hall concerts of a swing completely divorced from dance function, a tea dansant music trapped out with his borrowed effects from jazz, the Impressionists, and the French Romantics. Some hail him as a foremost genius of modern music, a few lament that "the Duke has forsaken jazz." Both are wrong: the laurels of Hindemith, Stravinsky, and Bartok are safe and, as for jazz, the Duke has never played it."--Shining Trumpets, a History of Jazz (1946) by Rudi Blesh, p. 281 |
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A tea dance, also called a thé dansant (French for "dancing tea"), was a dance held in the summer or autumn from 4 to 7 p.m. In the English countryside, a garden party sometimes preceded the dance.
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- Tea party
- Tea (meal)
- Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, a structural failure occurred during a hotel tea dance event with over 1,500 people attending.
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