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Feb 4, 2019, 12:59 AM

Blues

"...no music has been subject to more controversy and more censorship than the blues. In its various guises through time, as boogie-woogie, as R&B, as British blues and as rock'n'roll, the blues has been accused of corrupting the young, encouraging sexual depravity and inciting murder."

"The controversial issues of sex and death, often themes in blues songs, added fuel to the fire of those who wished to ban the blues. Few artists faced as much bigotry and censorship as Billie Holiday. As well as being both female and black, Holiday's tough upbringing resulted in a dark songbook with distressing lyrics that white America wasn’t ready to hear."

"In the post-war early days of R&B, it wasn’t the lyrics that were causing the most offence, but the beat. A pulsating and repetitive sexual beat. Conservatives railed against the vulgarity of what one referred to as the 'animalistic obscenity of negro rock’n’rollers'. Other slurs referred to beats coming from the jungle and encouraging the self-expression of young people through sex."

Jazz

"Jazz's popularity grows, and as it attracts a wider audience, so do campaigns to censor this 'devil's music.' Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, ridicule jazz, saying it sounds better played backwards. A Cincinnati home for expectant mothers wins an injunction to prevent construction of a neighboring theater where jazz will be played, convincing a court that the music is dangerous to fetuses. By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities across the nation enact laws prohibiting jazz in public dance halls."

"Before jazz emerged, many music educators - worried that jazz would destroy young people's interest in classical music - tried to convince the public that European classical music was the only 'good music.' 'One day I was in a practice room supposedly practicing classical music, but I was playing some jazz and, I guess my professor heard me because he opened the door and looked in and said, "stop playing that trash,"' remembers jazz musician Marian McPartland."

Rock

"Rock and roll sent shockwaves across America. A generation of young teenagers collectively rebelled against the music their parents loved. In general, the older generation loathed rock and roll. Appalled by the new styles of dance the movement evoked, churches proclaimed it Satan's music.

Because rock and roll originated among the lower classes and a segregated ethnic group, many middle-class whites thought it was tasteless. Rock and roll records were banned from many radio stations and hundreds of schools."

"Rock and roll is the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression - lewd, sly, in plain fact, dirty - a rancid-smelling aphrodisiac and the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth."
– Frank Sinatra, 1957

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Music

Your parents prob thought whatever you listened to wasn't music either***

Re: Few things set the TNet geezers off quite like being made to

Wrong...few things set us off like listening to lousy music!

Ya think it’s b/c about 95% or the populace

No, because that's hilariously incorrect

Some of us old geezers like pop music........

I enjoy many musical genres

Noone? ah, Peter noone. Love me some Herman’s hermits.***

Thanks, I usually catch stuff like that. Didn't even notice***

You do realize that chart means absolutely nothing

It means a lot more than your unsupported assertion

Probably no more than 30% purchase music at all, so if

Only in your imagination***

Just using your numbers, beech!***

No, you're making them up

Re: Probably no more than 30% purchase music at all, so if

Re: No, because that's hilariously incorrect

Why do they have rap and hip-hop classified separately?

Re: No, because that's hilariously incorrect

No doubt***

Re: No, because that's hilariously incorrect

Jazz did finish second in the 96-97 and 97-98 seasons

Certainly not a geezer and I despise "hip hop"

That's your opinion and you're entitled to it but this is

AC/DC somehow making Vermont's top 10 is awesome***

Found the Maroon 5 fanboy!!***

I can't name any of their songs nor did I particularly

I bet you drive a 15 yr old Mitsubishi with a glass pack

Is that a stereotype? No idea what a

Re: LOL I can't name any of their songs nor did I particularly

TBH I was barely paying attention. I didn't even bother turning

These local Georgia gals woud have been much better!

I’m not old but science agrees

Re: Few things set the TNet geezers off quite like being made to

Were your parents fans of Black Sabbath, Metallica, Van Halen?***

Re: Were your parents fans of Black Sabbath, Metallica, Van Halen?***

Thanks, that's what I figured***

Nah this was just BAD

Re: Few things set the TNet geezers off quite like being made to

This is so obviously true that I wonder why anyone would deny it***

Re: Few things set the TNet geezers off quite like being made to

Re: Few things set the TNet geezers off quite like being made to

That's cute. Here are some more threads into which you could

Re: That's cute. Here are some more threads into which you could

You can say that again!

Re: That's cute. Here are some more threads into which you could

Not to mention I posted this to the Amphitheatre, not Clemson FB***

You have it wrong. Most of us only get ticked off when

Sorry, I don't even remember why I posted it to begin with

Re: Few things set the TNet geezers off quite like being made to

Do you hear yourself?

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