JAZZ DENOUNCED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 September 1927, Page 7

JAZZ DENOUNCED.

“ESSENCE OF VULGARITY. ’ ’ BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPY RIGHT LONDON, Sept. 19. ■Sir -Henry Coward, lecturer in music at Sheffield’ University, speaking at the Sheffield Rotary Club, made a sensational attack upon jazz. He said: “It makes a trombone bray like an ass and guffaw like a village idiot, while a sil-ver-toned trumpet is made to produce a sound like the tearing of calico and the Availing of a nocturnal tomcat. They cannot make jazz anything but tire essence of vulgarity. It debases both music and instruments, making both farcical and ahvays putting emphasis upon the grotesque. “The popularisation of jazz and its attendant immodest dances has led to a lowering of the prestige of the white races. Let Americans embrace jazz if they- choose, but we must tnboo it in everv shape or form lest we awaken dormant activities of forgotten predispositions.”