IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Jazz: the music of democracy

· Socialist Challenge No. 174, 27 November 1980 · p. 7 of the scan · 543 words

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Socialists HAVE • LuThed COCAIST Cantande because the Marxist Group seems to have a more rational outlook than eithei Party or the Communist But I am not clear on your aruitude to Poland.

must suboon free trade unions, at least are the Polish strikers demanding? Apbarony wages more The shops. But how will higher wages put more food in the shops?

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Teoroanise agriculture on socialist lines, but nobody demands that.

matters worse, it appears demanding religious in caucation Sorood, TACT children should be brought up to believe in father-ruled by mily. ordained This position wald clear.

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Invade now Tar ine cover union believes the 'free world' fingers into the Polist The USSR cannot atford to have the enemy on its very frontiers Today it is, in the in danger attack trom cast and west.

Is the Soviet Union a sPry world force The progressive answer this question, and neither CP. 0088 van IMG answer it?

Yours for socialist unity Shrewsbury popular › BELL's nit-picking (Letters, Nov) over Skip Lazlo's interviow with percussionist Max Roach is reminiscent of something that has bedevilled the British music press What it boils down to. is a continual white whine: 'the niggers ain't playing it (or saying it) the way they used to'.

Far from being 'incoherent rubbish', Roach's brief statements are and overdue in the left press which, incidentally, general. ly reflocts this conspiracy to ignore the process of African-American art music.

But more importantly, мивісталь nave aevotoo so much of their life to political Roach has been continually at the forefront of black struggle, and to castigate him as a 'loonie' because he uses the word democracy way your correspondent fails recognise, does great disservice to an individual whose radical stance is a matter of record.

grasp music's history obscured some of doWd Roach's comments, space probably accounted for his failure to put in context what the drummer said Holiday's 'Lady in Satin'.

album was cut fow was a snadow order tormer solt, it regarded by listoners alike as one of her classic recordings. As a reflection of the Max Roach in action women's liberation.

Feminists have had the Si cals impact when they sion; abortion and battered way America In a to Music personal do aban True, Lazlo's rather inaccurate word) 'Jazz' COLOGOO of mont concerning Billie Roach For the record, although this when the singer musicians destroys its most talented individuals it is deeply movino. vet it is the capacity convey the history of the artist which, as Roach also points out, (for want of a better is indeed 'the music of providing opportunity for interaction and develop found symphonic music. It is the perfect antidote tc conformity, too was not implying that the music no helped to shape was a backdrop for the American Dream. natner no made it clear that thi music exists despite the rapression surrounding those who create it.

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VAL WILMER, London SW12 Workers Socialist League

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