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?
KKK....helped bring us JAzz?
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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.
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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