To the Eailor ofthe the popularity enjoyed nowadays by hat savage rhythmical noise bearing the mame of jazz and. swing! "musie"—especially with the Anglo-'Saxon. and' cosmopolitan youth this place. Summer is here again. and one has either to suffer this! pest on the alr, or to get suffocate ed by keeping one's windows closed {fo escape this infernal negro torture. It is hardly to be recommended musie-lover (having the privilege of living in one of. those isolated cottages in the Western District) that he should possess a radio "set. And why? Well, imagine you are a "working man, and after day's oil you look forward to getting to your armchair and stretching your Jegs while listening to. and enjoying. a, Beethoven sonata, a Grieg concerto, a Tehaikovsky symphony. oF, perhaps. a Chopin waltz, Can you always realize this peaceful in mention of yours? No.
Suppose you get your radio tuned a piece of your choice. Your soul statis to respond to the tunes of heaven-inspired music, you for~ get the day's cares and "troubles, you are trar Then, all of a sudden. you are roughly awakened the brutal intrusion of a negzo cacophony, followed by a bellowing! by some basso-voiced female singer, which in turn is succeeded by Tamentations on Jove, -soul-suft ings, ete, at the top of a crooner's voice. This means that a few [anthropoids in your neighbourhood were reminded "by your music the radio sels in. their possession and, not being in favour of Paderewski's performance of a Moonlight Sonata, choose to introduce a. slight amendment of. their predilec-Yon into. the musie' of your poor choice. entirely effacing your sonata by' the salvoes of their negro din, Certainly, after such collaboration tone gets disgusted and in one's fury. thinks of what one would do these people, 10 those crooners and to. those gigolo-composers infesting. this blessed world of ours, 'One is not surprised at the stand: ard of this jazz-swing din when 0 knows the history' of this musi and the milieu in which it originate ed, This constitutes a rather teresting topic in itself, and deserves to be dealt with apart. we.
Shanghai. June C. L. Bazaar:
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