Jazz is now allowed

[gvopedz]

For those who have not heard the news:

"The Orleans Parish School Board officially reversed the 100-year-old ban on jazz music and jazz dancing in schools..."

https://www.nola.com/news/education/article_8b4a35b2-abd0-11ec-a730-abe8c1566420.html

 

[Late]

“Jazz music and jazz dancing in schools should be stopped at once,” Baumgartner said during a debate on finances. “I have seen a lot of rough dancing in school auditoriums lately."

“What is jazz?” asked board member Percy H. Moise.

“I’ve only seen a little bit of it, but it was awful,” replied a third member, Henry C. Schaumburg.

[Gheorghe]

Reminds me of an old book from East Germany from the 70´s "Notenkarussell" written as a young peoples guide to music. 

There was one single phrase about jazz which I try to translate:

"If young people like to listen to jazz, that´s mighty fine. But with jazz it´s like drugs. If you take a small quantity of morphine, the next time you will take more until it get´s out of control. But we socialists must not leave our wit in the cloakroom........." 

Worse still, in the western world in the late 70´s early 80´s their was a book about "the fenomen of jazz" written by a guy who never might have listened to jazz. It was mostly about anthroposofical philosophy and the essence was something with more or less hidden or even obvious racism, that white people should listen to classical music and listen with using their brain, while "jazz" (which he didn´t explain what he thought that it is "jazz") is just something from the abdomen..... 

The red book is the Western European book from the late 70´s early 80´s, and the violet book is the GDR book for young people.....
 

Edited March 29, 2022 by Gheorghe

[sidewinder]

15 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

Reminds me of an old book from East Germany from the 70´s "Notenkarussell" written as a young peoples guide to music. 

There was one single phrase about jazz which I try to translate:

"If young people like to listen to jazz, that´s mighty fine. But with jazz it´s like drugs. If you take a small quantity of morphine, the next time you will take more until it get´s out of control. But we socialists must not leave our wit in the cloakroom........." 

Worse still, in the western world in the late 70´s early 80´s their was a book about "the fenomen of jazz" written by a guy who never might have listened to jazz. It was mostly about anthroposofical philosophy and the essence was something with more or less hidden or even obvious racism, that white people should listen to classical music and listen with using their brain, while "jazz" (which he didn´t explain what he thought that it is "jazz") is just something from the abdomen..... 

The red book is the Western European book from the late 70´s early 80´s, and the violet book is the GDR book for young people.....
 

Our equivalent in the UK was Rex Harris’s introductory book on ‘jazz’, which must have put thousands of people off.

[BillF]

7 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Our equivalent in the UK was Rex Harris’s introductory book on ‘jazz’, which must have put thousands of people off.

It put me onto Oliver, Armstrong and Morton, which was no mean thing.

Trouble was, anything without a banjo was too modern to be "jazz".