History of Songs

Here it goes: the entry point into the world of Blog~ I can hardly believe it.
The title for the blog is a slight nod to the great song "Jazz n' Samba" - a Jobim classic ( of course)...I have humbly chosen Jazz n' Songster .... to point to discussions of songs and their singular histories.

There are many friends in the jazz world dear to me, mostly dedicated musicians who toil in "obscurity" but one thing they know in abundance, is that each "tune" they play or sing has a history ... "it's own history, "a tail of sparkling "details" and "personal anecdotes"...therefore,
for this blog and the first entry, I am researching such a short story - as I find songs a rich world unto themselves. Jazz covers a very wide spectrum. One of the wonderful things about the people who play jazz is that they learn the American "standards" and therefore, keep these songs alive -- in our collective consciousness.

As an NYU Masters Student in Music Education I find that the lack of interest in our own American Jazz and Song Tradition leaves an empty space in the field of Music Education. If you ask a twenty -something about the great song writers of "Tin Pan Alley", they would look puzzled.Of course, the rap masters and teen singing idols of today are not part of my working knowledge, but their music has not withstood the test of time - as yet.
Could their be another Antonio Carlos Jobim?
..Another Cole Porter?
..Another Rodgers & Hart?
Could their vocabulary appear in a rap song?
Is our society more violent today ?
.........to be continued