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example of what the ancient
Preacher had in mind when he
answered his own rhetorical question,
is there any thing whereof it may b:
said, Sec, this is new ? ", with the disillusioning
assertion, "It hath been already
of old time, which was before
us.'
Yet while of course all recorded history
is no more than an extension and
coagulation of the legends of events
and personalities with which men have
entertained and instructed themselves
ever since they first learned the magical
powers of speech, the present -day
return to preserving history in the
quick- frozen colloquial narrations of
its makers and their contemporaries
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This popular, standard guide to
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apparent novelty. And although the
great modern pioneer in this field, Joe
Gould, Greenwich Village's peripatetic
scholar, never did make his monumental
( if perhaps largely mythical )
work available even in snatches to a
wider audience than his barroom
cronies, his basic notion of an "oral"
history of our times now is being seriously
developed by a corps of Columbia
professors under Pulitzer- Prizewinner
Allan Nevins. A fabulous
amount of material is being accumulated,
for the most part on magnetic
tapes, and the bits which have been
transcribed for publication in issues of
The American Heritage have attracted
wide interest and enthusiastic acclamation.
The method obviously is particularly
suitable for use in specialized fields
where activities have been or are in a
state of violent flux and where the
available source materials,
however
profuse, are so fragmentary and widely
scattered as to make comprehensive
collection - to say nothing of system -
.[tic organization - well -nigh humanly
impossible. Perhaps one day soon some
one will begin to exploit the oral -history
potentialities of recorded music
and high fidelity sound reproduction.
If and when they do, they are likely to
profit no more from the scholarly, institutional
methodology of Nevins and
his associates than from the brilliant,
unsponsored improvisations of two
jazz fans, Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff,
who have just published what
amounts to an oral history of their
favorite art (or is it a Way of Life? ) :
Hear Me Talkin' to Ya; the Story of
Jazz by the Men Who Made It ( Rinehart
& Co., $4.00) .
Now, whatever you may think of
jazz, either as an art form or as a social
phenomenon, there can be no denying
that it possesses incalculable significance
of some sort ... that it exerts a powerfully
magnetic attraction on many
listeners . . . that its history, nature,
and pantheon of gods and heroes all
have been the subjects of extraordinary
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