Anti-Yankee
Caversham
(Dunedin)
writes: As a
new "listener," I am greatly struck by the number of recordings of American origin that are put over the air, Why is this? Does not our Empire produce enough music in sufficient variety that we must have inflicted upon us number after number with exaggerated "effects" and parodied tunes with syncopated thythm from end to end? When .it comes to the songs we have the perpetual "drawl" and the phrases all slurred and "gnarled." I hope the new Director of Broadcasting will take some | steps to stem this tide of "Americanising" our music and our language. Our pictures ‘are slowly being cleansed of this perversion of our good Saxon tongue, but too slowly for my liking. _. Again, can you tell me why there are
« no elocutionary items over the air? These would be a welcome change from the music at times.
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Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 3, 24 July 1936, Page 49
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147Anti-Yankee Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 3, 24 July 1936, Page 49
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