“NEGRO MOANING”
MUSICAL TREND DEPLORED SAD AND DISILLUSIONED “’Go to a community sing in Christchurch,” suggested Dr. T. Vernon Griffiths, 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.” He added that the music came from a land which had rejected it. In America people of the same, culture as the audience would not have that stuff in their homes and they wondered that we do. “I am not. talking about jazz, bright, happy jazz. I am talking about that moaning, sad, disillusioned music, which we have accepted from the negroes of Africa,” he said.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32409, 20 March 1944, Page 7
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128“NEGRO MOANING” Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32409, 20 March 1944, Page 7
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