Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn IndependentFord, Henry
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Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
These methods are subject to variation, of course. There was a great
deal of “cutting” until the right Hebrew group survived, and then there
was a great deal of “trust” method adopted. The Music Publishers’
Association was organized by “Sime” Silberman and Maurice Goodman, and
now all the Jewish song manufacturers are included in it. The
organization has not changed any of the methods before used but has
curtailed the expense. Moreover, it has served to relieve the public to
this extent, that, instead of clinging to the one song paid for until
the public positively gags on it, the vaudeville or movie performers now
sing impartially the various songs of the various publishers forming the
trust. More variety has been introduced, that is all. The same old
commercialization continues.
As readers of the studies of Jewish theatrical control, which appeared
in this paper, will readily understand, the Jewish control of the
popular song field means that all non-Jews are barred out. It would be
next to impossible for the song of a non-Jew, however meritorious, to
reach the public by the usual channels. The musical magazines, the
musical critics, the musical managers, the music publishers, the
music-hall owners, the majority of the performers are not only all Jews,
but are Jews consciously banded together to keep out all others.
The dishonest methods practiced by the Yiddish controllers of this field
have been such as to move the _Billboard_, the leading vaudeville
publication, to refuse to print advertisements calling for song poems.
Perhaps the reader has seen such advertisements, suggesting that someone
has a tune or a song-poem that will probably make a fortune if only sent
to an address on Broadway or in the region of Tin Pan Alley. The
_Billboard_ says:
“No More Song Poem Ads Accepted.
“After investigating the business methods practiced by some Song
Poem advertisers, the _Billboard_ believes it to be to the best
interest of its readers to eliminate the heading, ‘Music and Words’
under which Song Poem advertisements appeared, and hereafter, or
until existing conditions are changed, the _Billboard_ will not
accept any more Song Poem advertising from any concern or
person....”
Everywhere the “popular song” has been attacked by keen observers of
social tendencies—but the attack has not been made intelligently. No
public menace like this can be abolished without showing the public the
source of it. Newspapers are now beginning to attack “jazz,” “the
vicious movies,” “the disgraceful dance.” Others attack the young folk
who sing jazz, the people who patronize the objectionable movies, the
throngs who indulge in indecent dancing. But all the time a small group
of men are deliberately and systematically forcing jazz and movies and
dances upon the country, spending hundreds of thousands in the effort
and reaping millions of profits.
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