POPULAR MUSIC
BRAVE NEW WORLD’S CANNED PRODUCTION. Even the last war, though the great days of the music-hall weer past, produced its quota of memorable popular songs, writes Professor C. E. M. Joad in the “New Statesman.” There were the famous popular songs of the Army—- “ Tipperary” and “Pack Up Your Troubles”; there were the scarcely less famous songs of the big popular revues. How audiences used to roar the choruses. of “Gilbert the Filbert” and “I’m So Glad to See Your Back, Dear Lady.” Has this war produced any songs of an equivalent popularity? If so, I have yet to hear them. The charge against the popular music of the time is not only that it is not music, but that it is not popular. It is not of the people, but of the can; being, in fact, the canned music of the Brave New World.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1941, Page 5
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