KKK....helped bring us JAzz?

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KKK....helped bring us JAzz?

#1 Post by omsuperhoops » Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:49 am

http://news.yahoo.com/klan-indirect-rol ... 15753.html


this was surprising to me, is this fairly common knowledge to all you jazz history heads?

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#2 Post by remysun » Fri Jun 21, 2013 11:47 pm

IIRC, an episode of History Detectives traced that history when someone found a Klan record.

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#3 Post by CountBasi » Tue Jun 25, 2013 7:34 pm

To say the KKK helped even indirectly bring us Jazz is over egging the pudding a bit.

In fact, the 3rd and 4th paragraphs in the article make conflicting assertions regarding the basis for Gennett's economic strength.

Anyway to answer your question, I did know about this before reading the article. I have the production catalog for 1924 and the company recorded a massive array of recording types, lectures, monologues, all sorts of vocal recordings. I think Gennett would have survived without the Klan recordings, just as they did with them.
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