> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>    Famed Czech radical Josef Skvorecky recently died at 87 in his adopted
>    land of Canada.
>    In the Atlantic, JJ Gould remembers Skvorecky through his memoirs,
>    including a detailed list of the rules for jazz performers during the
>    Nazi occupation. The Reich's Gauleiter for the Nazi Protectorate of
>    Bohemia and Moravia issued a 10-point regulation that Gould calls "the
>    single most remarkable example of 20th-century totalitarian invective
>    against jazz."

As a matter of fact, they are only now rediscovering the swing movement in
then Germany as a type of resistance. Quite a few maladjusted youths were
sent to concentration camps on grounds of listening to swing music.

Mathias




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