Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such authentic hot spirituals. But last week at a Carnegie Hall concert of Negro music sponsored by the leftist New Masses, 2,600 Manhattanites heard some pretty warm ones. Entitled "From Spirituals to Swing," the New Masses concert set out to demonstrate the evolution of Negro music from the African jungle to the boogie-woogie. This it did not quite do. The boogie-woogie (played by Meade "Lux" Lewis and others) was fairly well in the groove but the jungle music (represented by African phonograph recordings) sounded as irrelevant as a mass by Palestrina. Up the evolutionary ladder from...
...towns with English mayors, the mayors were allowed to welcome the wagons only on sufferance. Jewish mayors were rudely told to keep away. Finally even the pro-Boer South African Broadcasting Corp. was obliged to censor speeches. Ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church piled spiritual coals on the political fire. They declared that the wagons represented the Biblical Ark, that their axle grease would cure diseases, that children baptized in the wagons would lead blessed lives. The Czech crisis and the German pogroms were excuses for severe nationalistic outbreaks. In Johannesburg bearded Fascists fell on a band of antiFascists with...
...course I'm dumb, diplomatically and politically! Who isn't? But with all the talk about giving the African colonies back to Germany - or what not - why does no one suggest the obvious solution? Why not give them all back to the Africans? Not necessarily to the Negroes, though that might be proper, too; but to the Africans? Because that's what will ultimately have to be done. Neither England, Germany, Italy, nor Belgium can indefinitely hold any part of Africa as colonial exploitation material...
Sooner or later there will be either one United States of Africa - as the American Colonies grew to become the United States of America; or there will be several African states, all independent of Europe, as now in South America...
...Some Afrikanders were not prepared to be hospitable to Jews. In Johannesburg a meeting of Boers turned into an anti-Jewish demonstration. There were shouts of "Down With the Jews!" and 30 were injured in a disgraceful exhibition of South African hooliganism...