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Page 57 - My mother was a lady like yours you will allow And you may have a sister who needs protection now I've come to this great city to find a brother dear And you wouldn't dare insult me sir if Jack were only here.
Page 106 - But, besides those great men, there is a certain number of artists who have a distinct faculty of their own by which they convey to us a peculiar quality of pleasure which we cannot get elsewhere...
Page 86 - Berlioz in his supremest effort with his army of drummers produced nothing to compare in artistic interest with the harmonious drumming of these savages. The fundamental effect was a combination of double and triple time, the former kept by the singers, the latter by the drummers, but it is impossible to convey the idea of the wealth of detail achieved by the drummers by means of exchange of the rhythms, syncopation of both simultaneously, and dynamic devices.
Page 97 - Nowhere is the failure of the negro to exploit his gifts more obvious than in the use he has made of the jazz orchestra; for although nearly every negro jazz band is better than nearly every white band, no negro band has yet come up to the level of the best white ones, and the leader of the best of all, by a little joke, is called Whiteman.
Page 120 - I wish to sarve notice that, whin this thrile is over, I intind,' he says, 'to wait outside,' he says, 'an' hammer th' hon'rable coort into an omelet,
Page 106 - Thought rather than spirits is required, quality rather than colour, knowledge rather than irreticence, intellect rather than singularity, wit rather than romps, precision rather than surprise, dignity rather than impudence, and lucidity above all things: plus de Jazz. It is not so written, but it sounds like "Above all things, no more jazz!
Page 198 - It is noteworthy that these two stars bring something to America which America lacks and loves — they are, I suppose, two of our most popular entertainers — and that both are racially out of the dominant caste. Possibly this accounts for their fine carelessness about our superstitions of politeness and gentility.
Page 307 - Kat] is easily the most amusing and fantastic and satisfactory work of art produced in America today; That Florenz Ziegfeld is a better producer than David Belasco; That one film by Mack...
Page 347 - genteel tradition" about the arts which has prevented any just appreciation of the popular arts, and that these have therefore missed the corrective criticism given to the serious arts, receiving instead only abuse. That therefore the pretentious intellectual is as much responsible as any one for what is actually absurd and vulgar in the lively arts. That the simple practitioners and simple admirers of the lively arts being uncorrupted by the bogus preserve a sure instinct for what is artistic in...
Page 58 - Here's the very note, This is what he wrote— 'Can't get away to marry you today, My wife won't let me!