[78-L] three riddles

[goldenbough at arcor.de]

Yes, some may think that Jazz and Blues were forbidden in communist countries, but they 
were not. They were part of the anti-capitalist propaganda. 
The ideology was that Jazz and Blues were the music of those oppressed by capitalists. 
It was the music of 'comrades'. This is the way it 'had' to be put in the liner notes, if Amiga (East Germany), 
Qualiton (Hungary), Melodiya (USSR), Supraphon (Czechoslovakia) wanted to publish LPs of local 
Dixieland Jazz bands or reissue 'Folk Blues Festival' LPs - probably without paying licence fees to Polydor. 

Same for radio shows. Sometimes we could not help laughing when we heard the comments 
to the songs 'of today's slavery in the USA', 'jazz being the outrcy of suppression in the industry suburbs 
where the blacks are trodden on by the feet of the managers at Ford and Chrysler, and exploited by 
United Fruit Company, Procter & Gamble and the like'.  (roughly...)

Benno 

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