Comments on: Nazi rules for jazz performers http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 17:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Meekrob http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368813 Meekrob Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368813  Couldn't agree more.  I'd rather listen to an accordion than a sax.  Couldn’t agree more.  I’d rather listen to an accordion than a sax.

]]> By: twency http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368777 twency Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368777 I don't recall a whole lot of  "Jewish-Freemasonic yowl"ing on Lawrence Welk, but maybe I just wasn't listening carefully enough. I don’t recall a whole lot of  ”Jewish-Freemasonic yowl”ing on Lawrence Welk, but maybe I just wasn’t listening carefully enough.

]]> By: Natanael L http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368547 Natanael L Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368547  Since when were they strangers to hypocrisy?  Since when were they strangers to hypocrisy?

]]> By: wangstein http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368380 wangstein Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368380 Not to say the Nazis had the right idea, but these sort of rules might offer a final solution to the autotune problem. Not to say the Nazis had the right idea, but these sort of rules might offer a final solution to the autotune problem.

]]> By: Reverend Loki http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368369 Reverend Loki Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368369  Yes, but not in any musical aptitude, and most certainly never in any Human Resources manner.  Yes, but not in any musical aptitude, and most certainly never in any Human Resources manner.

]]> By: Kapitein Pannekoek http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368351 Kapitein Pannekoek Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:04:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368351 And the end result: Heino. And the end result: Heino.

]]> By: Guest http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368238 Guest Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368238  the word fiction means they're made up snopes!  the word fiction means they’re made up

snopes!

]]> By: Christopher http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368212 Christopher Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368212 Before reading the article I was trying to remember the name of Skvorecky's novel about a saxophone player who played jazz for a Nazi audience. It's been too many years since I read it. The one I've never forgotten, though, is <b>Ms. Silver's Past</b>, which I found so haunting and beautiful that it's stayed with me. Before reading the article I was trying to remember the name of Skvorecky’s novel about a saxophone player who played jazz for a Nazi audience. It’s been too many years since I read it.

The one I’ve never forgotten, though, is Ms. Silver’s Past, which I found so haunting and beautiful that it’s stayed with me.

]]> By: Christopher http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368210 Christopher Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368210  Badgers? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING BADGERS!  Badgers? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING BADGERS!

]]> By: TheMudshark http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368180 TheMudshark Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368180 I agree with the restrictions on saxophone use. I agree with the restrictions on saxophone use.

]]> By: John Pienaar http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368179 John Pienaar Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368179 http://irom.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/humor-nazi-germanys-dance-band-rules-of-1940/ "“It is not exactly humor -- it is a part of Czech fiction writer Joseph Škvorecký’s story “Eine Kleine Jazzmusik”, published in 1966. Everybody in 1960s Europe knew it was a fake, expecially because of the “Reischmusikfuehrer’s” first and last name (which sounds too unnaturally much Hitler Era-ish — well, as if an imaginary U.S. functionary from the same time were called Roosevelt Newdeal.) But then, as the 1960s in their order became history, this feeling of on-purpose exaggeration somehow vanished, and newer generations of writers now meet this excerpt, which since the arrival of the Internet became a popular mega-quotation, now lives its own life; its readers, unaware of its being part of a certain writer’s fiction story (and, I am afraid, of the very existence of that certain writer,) now believe it to be a genuine Nazi document." http://irom.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/humor-nazi-germanys-dance-band-rules-of-1940/ ““It is not exactly humor — it is a part of Czech fiction writer Joseph Škvorecký’s story “Eine Kleine Jazzmusik”, published in 1966. Everybody in 1960s Europe knew it was a fake, expecially because of the “Reischmusikfuehrer’s” first and last name (which sounds too unnaturally much Hitler Era-ish — well, as if an imaginary U.S. functionary from the same time were called Roosevelt Newdeal.) But then, as the 1960s in their order became history, this feeling of on-purpose exaggeration somehow vanished, and newer generations of writers now meet this excerpt, which since the arrival of the Internet became a popular mega-quotation, now lives its own life; its readers, unaware of its being part of a certain writer’s fiction story (and, I am afraid, of the very existence of that certain writer,) now believe it to be a genuine Nazi document.”

]]> By: wrybread http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368155 wrybread Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368155 It must have been very satisfying for the author of these rules to be such a music nazi, with the power to legislate. But seriously, he strikes me as mostly a classical music purist, with just enough "ra ra Aryan race" nouveau nazi values to make his pronouncements sound modern and moral to the nazi ear. It must have been very satisfying for the author of these rules to be such a music nazi, with the power to legislate.

But seriously, he strikes me as mostly a classical music purist, with just enough “ra ra Aryan race” nouveau nazi values to make his pronouncements sound modern and moral to the nazi ear.

]]> By: retepslluerb http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368133 retepslluerb Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368133 Thankfully, people like that nice US sergeant  take some of that particular spotlight away.   Thankfully, people like that nice US sergeant  take some of that particular spotlight away.  

]]> By: retepslluerb http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368131 retepslluerb Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368131 I see. That was *very* understated, in my opinion, as the article didn't make any claims that this set of rule was particularly vile. I see. That was *very* understated, in my opinion, as the article didn’t make any claims that this set of rule was particularly vile.

]]> By: Incipient Madness http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368118 Incipient Madness Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368118 If it's a hoax, it has to be more than ten years old because this list was quoted in a song from 1990. Links to the song have been posted twice in this thread. If it’s a hoax, it has to be more than ten years old because this list was quoted in a song from 1990. Links to the song have been posted twice in this thread.

]]> By: Incipient Madness http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368115 Incipient Madness Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368115 They had to. All of Hitler's speeches were autotuned.  They had to. All of Hitler’s speeches were autotuned. 

]]> By: Incipient Madness http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368113 Incipient Madness Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368113  I was gonna show up here and post a link to this vid and be a hero. You got here first.  And yeah, I hate that WHFS is gone. It was on its way down when the Einstein family sold the station in the early 90's and they moved from Annapolis to New Carrolton. WHFS was the coolest thing when I lived in the DC area. And now KTRU, the station I grew up on, is now online only.  I was gonna show up here and post a link to this vid and be a hero. You got here first.  And yeah, I hate that WHFS is gone. It was on its way down when the Einstein family sold the station in the early 90′s and they moved from Annapolis to New Carrolton. WHFS was the coolest thing when I lived in the DC area.

And now KTRU, the station I grew up on, is now online only.

]]> By: Christopher Miller http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368083 Christopher Miller Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368083 Bummer.  Maybe the Nazis weren't so bad. Bummer.  Maybe the Nazis weren’t so bad.

]]> By: paulj http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368023 paulj Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368023 With that suspiciously prominent nose and his obliquely gay or sexually ambiguous lyrics, Townshend wouldn't have been allowed to perform. With that suspiciously prominent nose and his obliquely gay or sexually ambiguous lyrics, Townshend wouldn’t have been allowed to perform.

]]> By: Hakuin http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368008 Hakuin Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368008  maybe he's been toking:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg  maybe he’s been toking:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg

]]> By: tonalc2 http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1368000 tonalc2 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:29:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1368000 As entertaining as the list and the ensuing conversation are, the list itself is a hoax from at least ten years ago: http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=49218 As entertaining as the list and the ensuing conversation are, the list itself is a hoax from at least ten years ago:
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=49218

]]> By: buddy66 http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1367985 buddy66 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1367985 "Patter on the sordine" sounds like something by Slim Gaillard. “Patter on the sordine” sounds like something by Slim Gaillard.

]]> By: tré http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1367983 tré Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1367983  Wow, thanks for that. Always cool to learn new things.  Wow, thanks for that. Always cool to learn new things.

]]> By: teapot http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1367948 teapot Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1367948  That was awesome, thanks!  That was awesome, thanks!

]]> By: awjt http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1367931 awjt Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1367931 This is befuct. This is befuct.

]]> By: penguinchris http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1367916 penguinchris Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1367916 @boingboing-566a9968b43628588e76be5a85a0f9e8:disqus  I typically don't bother looking through the LPs anymore when I go to thrift stores (which is several times a week), but considering how many Welk LPs populate the shelves at your average thrift store I'll definitely be on the lookout for this one! @boingboing-566a9968b43628588e76be5a85a0f9e8:disqus  I typically don’t bother looking through the LPs anymore when I go to thrift stores (which is several times a week), but considering how many Welk LPs populate the shelves at your average thrift store I’ll definitely be on the lookout for this one!

]]> By: Christopher Miller http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1367909 Christopher Miller Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1367909 "Characteristic of the barbarian races" you say?  In the Western World, aren't the German races historically synonymous with barbarism? Oh wait, this is BB, gotta class it up with a Goethe quote or something.  Can't quite remember it, something like:  It will be a long time yet before the German people can say, “it has been a long time since we were barbarians”. Boosh. “Characteristic of the barbarian races” you say?  In the Western World, aren’t the German races historically synonymous with barbarism?

Oh wait, this is BB, gotta class it up with a Goethe quote or something.  Can’t quite remember it, something like:  It will be a long time yet before the German people can say, “it has been a long time since we were barbarians”.

Boosh.

]]> By: ill lich http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1367897 ill lich Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1367897 I recall a friend had a music theory book, printed in America well before the rise of Hitler, that also denigrated "negro jazz" as wild cacophonous jungle sounds, not worthy of the term "music." Wonder what they thought of "Le Sacre Du Printemps"? I recall a friend had a music theory book, printed in America well before the rise of Hitler, that also denigrated “negro jazz” as wild cacophonous jungle sounds, not worthy of the term “music.”

Wonder what they thought of “Le Sacre Du Printemps”?

]]> By: ill lich http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1367889 ill lich Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1367889  My record nerd spidey sense is tingling-- I am familiar with faux-hip LPs by Liberace, Doc Severinson and even various polka bands, but I call BS on this Welk "electric champagne" album.  My record nerd spidey sense is tingling– I am familiar with faux-hip LPs by Liberace, Doc Severinson and even various polka bands, but I call BS on this Welk “electric champagne” album.

]]> By: MarcVader http://boingboing.net/2012/03/10/nazi-rules-for-jazz-performers.html#comment-1367882 MarcVader Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=148531#comment-1367882 @boingboing-ca0b4cdd24cd14d963effac4702acb2f:disqus Dang, you are right I actually wrote preposition! What was I thinking! I meant article, thanks for pointing that out. @boingboing-ca0b4cdd24cd14d963effac4702acb2f:disqus Dang, you are right I actually wrote preposition! What was I thinking! I meant article, thanks for pointing that out.

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