A CHALLENGE FROM JAZZ
SIR HENRY COWARD, late lecturer in music at Sheffield University, has denounced jazz as the essence of vulgarity. A song publisher challenged Sir Henry to write his own ideas of a modern dance tune and undertook to have it played throughout the country. He offered to pay him full royalties in order to lost the opinion of modern youth. The dancing world, he said, was growing tired of armchair critics and stated that as an indication of the popularity of jazz, British publishers paid £150,000 a year in royalties on American tunes.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 162, 29 September 1927, Page 16
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96A CHALLENGE FROM JAZZ Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 162, 29 September 1927, Page 16
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