[Dixielandjazz] FW: The Nazi’s 10 Control-Freak Rules for Jazz Performers: A Strange List from World War II | Open Culture

[Marek Boym]

Hello Dave,
I've read the discussion, which reveals little.
Jazz was described by the NAZIs as degenerate Negro music, with the
addition of Jewish elements.  In his book "U Brzegów Jazzu" (At the
Jazz Shores), the Polish writer Leopold Tyrmand, who had been  a
Polish lbourer in GErmany during WWII, described an encounter with a
German officer who played Benny Goodman Quartet records on his boat
sailing on a reiver.  IN the book (I cannot find my copy anymore -
must have fot lost in moving) he mentiones asking the GErman how
playing music by a group of two Negroes, a Jew and an Americanized
Czekh went together with being an officer in the Wehrmacht.
The "rules" might have been invented by a Czekh writer, but jazz was
forbidden for real, and jazz players were persecuted.  There was a
film about it (I cannot recall the title nor whether it was a GErman
film).

Tyrmand advocated jazz in the days it was still forbidden in communist
Poland as a "decadent capitalistic music."  Sometime around 1953-54,
jazz underwent a metamorphosis: from "decadent capitalistic music" to
"the expression of the Negroes' struggle for equality," and, as such,
"kosher."
Cheers,
Marek (who experienced that metamorphosis)

On 28 March 2013 18:53, david richoux <domitype at gmail.com> wrote:
> This so-called "historical edict" has been discussed extensively on DJML -
> it has been proven to be a work of satirical fiction.
>
> Snopes.com has not published a full report on the subject, but they do
> discuss it here: http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=49218
>
> Dave Richoux
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Norman Vickers <nvickers1 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> To:  DJML and Musicians and Jazzfans list, Pensacola Mencken list
>>
>> From: Norman Vickers
>>
>>
>>
>> Pensacola jazzfan Mike Lynch has uncovered another essay.  See his comment
>> and connect to the link.
>>
>>
>>
>> Recall, too, that there was the famous essay in Etude Magazine ( classical
>> music magazine which was almost required reading for music teachers) in the
>> 1920s which deplored  ragtime and jazz.  This statement was also endorsed
>> by the American Federation of Musicians.
>>
>> And for the H. L.  Mencken fans, Mencken was  anti-jazz.  He, himself,
>> played second piano in his Saturday Night Club group.  They had physicians
>> from Johns Hopkins and music teachers from Peabody Conservatory as part of
>> that group.  Playing first piano was America’s first professional medical
>> illustrator, also from Johns Hopkins.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Mike Lynch [mailto:mikelynch1 at bellsouth.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 8:56 AM:;
>> Subject: The Nazi’s 10 Control-Freak Rules for Jazz Performers: A Strange
>> List from World War II | Open Culture
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ve had this book for ages.  Now I’m motivated to finally read it.
>>  (Someone should make a poster of the “Nazi Ten Commandments of Jazz”!)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/the_nazis_10_control-freak_rules_for_jazz_performers_.html
>>
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