[78-L] Racism in record collecting [was Poll answer!! --Review of Do Not Sell At Any Price]

[Kristjan Saag]

Jazz was recorded even i Germany in 1942-43.
Krstjan


On 2014-07-26 19:54, Julian Vein wrote:
>
> On 26/07/14 18:00, Mike Harkin wrote:
>> I'm not familiar with the sort of music in question, but perhaps the collectors fed their feeling of superiority:
>> "these guys still live in the jungle, and this so-called
>> music proves it."  Or words to that effect.  Hitler
>> thought that jazz proved the inferiority of blacks.  An
>> irony:  at the 1936 Olympics, Jesse Owen and die
>> schwarzen Mithilfer (black auxilliaries) competed wearing
>> Adidas athletic shoes -- a German product!
>>
>> Mike in Plovdiv
>> =================================
> I suspect the Nazis rationalised Owens's victory by thinking to
> themselves that Black people may be superior to Whites physically, but
> not intellectually. After all, running is only an animal skill.
>
> Ironically, jazz was still being recorded in occupied Europe during
> 42-43, whilst there was a recording ban in the USA on commercial sessions.
>
>         Julian Vein
>
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