[78-L] three riddles

[Julian Vein]

goldenbough at arcor.de wrote:
> 
> 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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I recall around 1956 that it was being suggested (by the Politburo?) 
that jazz began in Georgia SSR. Some wit at the time suggested they had 
performed a tune called "Stepping Into Classless Society"!

      Julian Vein


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