"Jazz"

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 11, 27 September 1929, Page 27

"Jazz"

Definition Contest A RECENT contest held fby an American radio station amng its listeners for the best definition wf jazz music brought the following reyplies: "The flapper’s lullaby." "The loose chain on the tire of life." "Rhythm used by the imps of B'ades in their membership drive axnong mortals." "Unbuttoned music." "The true expression of the big city." "The pig’s squeal discarded by the packers." , "An inspiration of the younger seneration to keep the older generatj.on alive." "A rhythmic scramble of knives ajnd forks shaken frantically in a tin pai." "Sixty per cent. atmospherics, 25 per cent. cat’s meow," 8 per cent. insanity. 5 per cent. bunk, and 2 per cent. music." ;