[JPL] All That Chinese Jazz

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Folks:
 
I'm writing a book on jazz in China and it isn't quite like what you've all  
been told. Yes Jones' book has a lot of good coverage of the era and the work 
is  well documented, but there are other stories to be told.
 
Gene Marlow
 
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> "The Chairman saw  jazz as a plaything of the elite, an accessory to
> foreign imperialism  and the antithesis to common Chinese culture..."
> 
> Talking to  Willie Ruff once about jazz in China and mentioned Teddy
> Weatherford  as well as Buck Clayton as having played there. He just
> glared and  said something to the effect that it was played there but
> with a sign  on the door that prohibited regular Chinese people "and
> dogs" from  entering.
> 
> Lazaro Vega

Andrew F. Jones goes into this  in great depth in his fascinating book 
"Yellow Music: Media, Culture and  Colonial  Modernity":
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=aIDzyVzb9r4C&dq=yellow+music&printsec=f
rontcover&source=web&ots=n3c8Kc5lyh&sig=C7vUxLEMXtNflSGcO2DiTwbg6jg&sa=X&oi=bo
ok_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA126,M1.

Larry

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