P&Crooning

[Monte Davis]

Better still, De Forest in his 1940 letter to the National Ass'n of
Broadcasters:

 

"What have you done with my child, the radio broadcast? You have debased
this child, dressed him in rags of ragtime, tatters of jive and
boogie-woogie."

 

It ain't Cotton Mather or John Knox, but then De Forest hadn't heard Justin
Bieber or Rush Limbaugh. Gotta take your jeremiads as you find 'em. 

 

 

 

From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Charles Albert
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:18 AM
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Subject: P&Crooning

 






How Bing Crosby and the Nazis Helped to Create Silicon Valley


 

>From "The Coming of the Crooners
<http://www.shsu.edu/%7Elis_fwh/book/roots_of_rock/support/crooner/EarlyCroo
nersIntro2.htm> ," by Ian Whitcomb: 

The press had a field day disseminating the attacks on the "crooning boom"
by moral authorities. In January 1932 they quoted Cardinal O'Connell of
Boston: "Crooning is a degenerate form of singing.. No true American would
practice this base art. I cannot turn the dial without getting these whiners
and bleaters defiling the air and crying vapid words to impossible tunes."
The New York Singing Teachers Association chimed in, "Crooning corrupts the
minds and ideals of the younger generation." Lee DeForest, one of radio's
inventors, regretted that his hopes for the medium as a dispenser of "golden
argosies of tome" had become "a continual drivel of sickening crooning by
'sax' players interlaced with blatant sales talk."



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TheaKantorska 2 days ago

If you want a Nazi-connection, however of a different kind (as the first US
patent for a magnetic recorder invented by Valdemar Poulsen of Denmark was
issued in 1900, when Adolf Hitler was just 11 years old): Austrian-born
Fritz Pfleumer, who improved Poulsen's invention by replacing steel wire
with tape, in 1928 sold the right of utilization to the German Company AEG
in 1932. The American company General Electric had already acquired a share
of 27.5% in 1929/30, providing for five American seats on the company's
supervisory board. In 1933 AEG donated 60,000 Reichsmark (no mean sum then)
to Hitler's organization in 1933 and later used slave labor in Auschwitz
until 1945.

 

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/how-bing-crosby-and-t
he-nazis-helped-to-create-silicon-valley.html

 

love,

cfa

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