Music Soothes the Savage
HE programmes under the heading "Music While You Work" from 1YA have a depressing uniformity. True I often have to work at the time they are scheduled so I do not hear them all; but* on those occasions when I am able to listen, they have consisted exclusively of music by the noisier and more discordant swing bands, interpolated all too frequently with choruses shouted by 4 choice selection of voices patterned on those of the less agreeable fishwives, or professional wailers moaning of the delights of love. A moment ago a voice which, I should think, had been raised on a diet of files was elaborating the statement that "Music soothes the savage." The only conclusion I could draw from his argument was that the savage was indeed lucky to be out of range. Just for contrast, another voice, hardly human, is now lamenting that "Other arms are round you now, some other love has found you now" apparently under the lilacs in the rain. Very uncomfortable I’m sure. But I bet it hasn’t stepped up production or soothed (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) savage breasts constrained to spend Saturday morning at the machines, unless it be in any atomic bomb factories that may be around. It would be interesting to know, not the findings of an industrial research bureau, but the feelings of those who must work to this noise.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 14
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239Music Soothes the Savage New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 14
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