"NEGRO MOANING"
MUSICAL TREND DEPLORED SAD AND DISILLUSIONED "Co to a community sing in Christchurch." suggested ])r. T. Vernon (I rifl'illis, Professor of. Music at Canterbury University College, speaking in Nelson recently. "Do- you hear people singing songs which inevitably speak to you of the greatness of the past, of one sincere thought, simply and sincerely expressed. You know perfectly well you don't/' lie added that the music came from a land which had rejected it. In America people of the same culture as the auduMice Avould not have that stall' in their homes and they wondered that we do. '*.!( am not talking about jazz, bright, happy jazz. I am talking about that moaning, sad. disillusioned music, which we. have accepted J'rom the negroes of Africa," he .said.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 60, 28 March 1944, Page 6
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128"NEGRO MOANING" Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 60, 28 March 1944, Page 6
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