Jazz and the Soviet Union
Sir,—lt is difficult to believe that A. K. Grant is not exercising his considerable talent for satire in reviewing Professor Starr’s “Red and Hot: the Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union” (April 7) when he speculates that jazz and rock music could undermine the socialist foundations of the Soviet Union. Jazz is the commercial property of wealthy corporate interests in the United States. It promotes the cultural and ideological values of its ruling oligarchic plutocracy. Professor Starr’s foolish comparison of the “rich modern, popular culture of the U.S.A.” with “little of its reality in the Soviet Union,” shows a high degree of besottedness with his own popular culture, and total ignorance of that of the Soviet Union. What elements besides jazz constitute the rich, modern popular culture of the U.S.A. — drugs, pornography, strip tease, Disneyland? I would challenge the authenticity of the photograph accompanying the review as being of Soviet prisoners of war. —
Yours, etc., M. CREEL. April 7, 1984.
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