A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz
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A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz
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@JaneinNJ @paulisci Some casual digging and guessing suggests it's Paul Whiteman, who himself was American, so the phrase "American drinks that you aren't supposed to drink" reads even more strangely to me now. I mean, it's most likely he was talking about illicit liquor, but the turn of phrase is just so weird to my mental ears.
@michaeljoseph @paulisci This is it, exactly.
Followed by Harry Anslinger's attack on cannabis.
Never understood Evangelicals' fear of cartoonish Heavy Metal when Jazz seems so much more attuned to the Devil's appetites