Bert Kelly's Jaz Band

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/15/2010 10:03 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Not so fast, George.  Nice people who associated the innovation "jazz"
>(perhaps correctly) with the naughty sense of "jasm" would have thought it
>pretty shocking. (Not-nice people who made the association would have
>laughed and ignored it.)
>
>I suspect their numbers were not negligible.  Of course the absence of even
>one editorial comment decrying the currency of the word, rather than the
>music, undermines this argument.

Doesn't the absence of *** or --- also undermine that argument?  Or
were all newspaper editors in the 1910s not-nice people?  (Possibly
related to my question about the commonness of such elisions in the
early 20th century.)

Joel

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