Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michael Levin '42, who today begins a weekly swing column for the CRIMSON has been writing on jazz for the Cleveland News for a year an a half...
...Recorded are his jazz fugue, Bach Goes Town (Victor), and an album of satires (Gramophone Shop, Inc., 18 East 45th Street, Manhattan...
Another: while jazz comes to the jitterbug hot off the griddle, spirituals are dished out to concertgoers like musical cold meat. By the time they reach the concert hall most spirituals have been written down on paper, dressed up like hymn tunes, adorned with fancy piano accompaniments, "interpreted" according to the best rules of high-brow music. But in the whitewashed rural churches of the deep South, their spiritual home, spirituals are as hot as hot jazz, and often sound like...
Though known to inquisitive record collectors through a few recordings of curiously wailing, syncopated spirituals,† Mitchell's Christian Singers had never before sung at a formal concert. Their spirituals were sung with touching solemnity, and with the intensity and abandon of hot jazz. Both jitterbugs and highbrows heartily approved them...
...good, non-Germanic countries have had to import a large part of their concert music. But during the past 75 years composers in other countries have struggled to raise their own distinct national types of concert music, to produce symphonies, quartets, operas that are 100% Russian, Hungarian or American (jazz). Some have been fairly successful, especially those, like the Russians, who have had a rich store of national folk music to draw upon...