Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...towards music in New Haven. His facts and the conclusions he draws from them are surely significant and could probably be applied to Harvard as well as Yale. An unprejudiced observer could hardly help noticing the interest in music at Harvard as shown by the increasing number of non jazz records bought around the Square, the tremendous overapplication for tickets to the Boston Symphony concerts in Sanders theatre, as well as the number of men taking courses in the music department...
Most of us can think of a few otherwise intelligent people who are hidebound on the subject of the Younger Generation; professional pessimists who moan and become vehement over the lack of taste and the low standards of the Jazz-mad, Whoopee young people of the day. These pessimists are no doubt permanent fixtures of society, but if they were to glance about with a little more regard for facts and a little loss regard for their own enviable position, the story would be of quite another color; and a color more favorable to the pathetic, abused Orphans...
...course everyone has his own tastes; some like jazz, others prefer classical music. But the majority of people today, in my opinion, are jazz mad," she said in response to a question...
...slithering, urgent voice. To this ditty Producer White dances a strenuous routine (successor to his Charleston, Black Bottom). The carnivals of Europe have inspired huge, mechanical grotesques which loom now and then behind the players - a shaggy Beast rolls its head and eyes while Beauty pirouettes; an enormous dummy jazz band swoops and sways. Meanwhile Willie Howard talks Jewish, and the Abbott dancers from Chicago tap dance on their toes. Ousted from the bed of a married woman, a clown exclaims : "Believe it or not, I'm a stowaway...
Scholar Abbe Niles definitely fixes the father of "blues" and therefore grand- father of all jazz as William Christopher Handy, colored, first (1910) composer in the national idiom...