[Dixielandjazz] Nazi Dance Band Rules - - A Fake?

[Marek Boym]

Perhaps the Germans didn't care if the Untermentchen listened to
decadent music - they were to be eventually wiped out, after all...


On 25/08/2009, Dingo <roadie at btinternet.com> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Mitchell"
> Cc: "DJML" <Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Nazi Dance Band Rules - - A Fake?
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> > In Storyville magazine No. 60  (August-September, 1975) Berhard Behncke
> quoted from Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger of October 12, 1935 : "Niggerjazz is no
> longer allowed". Berhard then said  "Ironically this did not stop the
> dictators pressing many jazz records from original masters until 1939.. but
> only for foreigners and for export!"
> >
> > In Storyville 61 (October-November, 1975)  Horst Lange of Berlin wrote:
> "It is simply not true to say that at that time jazz records were sold only
> to foreigners or exported. Everybody could buy them in unlimited numbers
> from most record shops until September, 1939. It was only on the German
> radio that one heard no more jazz".
> >
> > Lange wrote a book called JAZZ IN GERMANY which would probably discuss the
> whole matter in detail, but it's not a book that I've read. How about it,
> Bill??
> >
> > Best wishes
> > Jack Mitchell
> >
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> I don't know when they were issued, but I have two 'pristine' 1937 Benny
> Carter 78's on German Brunswick. These are tracks he recorded in The Hague
> which included Scotland's own George Chisholm on trombone. I can't recall
> which sides I have as the discs are still packed away from my last home move
> ...... over 5 years ago !!
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> Over the years I have been frequently puzzled by this business of the Nazis
> and jazz. Given the amount of jazz/swing which was recorded in the occupied
> countries between 1939 and 1945 it would appear not to be so frowned upon
> there as in Der Fatherland.
> ~~
> John D
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