JAZZ IN NEW ZEALAND
Sir,-With many music lovers of my acquaintance, I am perturbed by the general symptoms of musical retrogression in this country. One ominous sign of this decline is the growing support given by The New Zealand Listener to jazz and its followers. Jazz is the negation of musical refinement and culture; its influence is debasing and corrupting and, despite all that may be argued to the contrary, there is nothing but musical evil that can result from its pursuit. The volume of pernicious trash broadcast from YA and commercial stations is simply appalling, and is constantly increasing. The anomaly that the Minister of Broadcasting is also Minister of Education becomes daily more absurd. I have no intention of entering into any argument on this matter; what I have stated is an incontrovertible fact and there is no more to be said about it as far as I am concerned.
L. D.
AUSTIN
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 889, 17 August 1956, Page 18
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156JAZZ IN NEW ZEALAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 889, 17 August 1956, Page 18
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