What happened to the "Help me crack jazz" thread?
Posted by: fred simon on 10 June 2014
It's been disappeared ... why?!
Must have been late yesterday it went Fred as I am sure I saw it still up in the morning.
It has been reported to moderators and they took it off for further analysis.
Haven't seen it come back since.
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/jazz.html
Down with jazz: Anti jazz campaign of the 1930's
On New Year's Day 1934, Fr. Conifrey led a march through Mohill, County Leitrim, in which demonstrators shouted "down with jazz" and "out with paganism" and called on the government to close the dance halls and ban all foreign dances in Ireland.
De Valera sent a representative to the rally and wrote a letter of support.
Jazz, the campaign argued, was "abominable" music that originated in central Africa and was exported to the West by "a gang of wealthy Bolshevists in the USSR to strike at church civilisation throughout the world."
Jazz was an "engine of hell" deployed to do the devil's work. The Gaelic League weighed in on the day with an attack on then-Minister of Finance Seán MacEntee, who, in allowing jazz to be broadcast on Radio Eireann, was "selling the musical soul of the nation for the dividends of sponsored jazz programmes.
This documentary looks back at that anti jazz campaign.
It has been reported to moderators and they took it off for further analysis.
Haven't seen it come back since.
Strange. Do you know why it was reported to the moderators?
It has been reported to moderators and they took it off for further analysis.
Haven't seen it come back since.
Strange. Do you know why it was reported to the moderators?
Yes, I do have an idea.
One of our respected forum members put himself in a vulnerable position by talking about a disorder he's got and explicitly requested not to go into that and to be treated with care.
A few other members (not so respected in my view) still thought it necessary to make 'funny' remarks about it. How low can one get, but that's internet for you, a perfect place to hide behind.
after that incident it has been reported and taken off.
It's forum policy not to discuss moderation matters, but yes, the thread has been removed.