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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 6, No. 4 April 14, 1943

[Introduction]

Hot Jazz, both in British countries and America, has suffered insults, patronage and distortion at the hands of classical musicians, but rarely an intelligent study. Classical critics, in considering it tolerable, ephemeral, or just holiday music, according to temperament, ignore the fact that genuine "Hot Jazz" is based on the blues and is expressive of the agony of an oppressed people. Against such critics we defends the view that jazz is a type of folk art, unusual in that it is a city creation, drawing heavily upon the primitive music of the American negro.