Music: Off the Cob

Obviously Marshal Tito was just a square. He wasn't hep and neither was Yugoslavia's newspaper Glas. Said Glas: jazz is "senseless, impossible combinations of sounds calculated to arouse the lowest, most atavistic and long-suppressed instincts in man." Worse than that, added Glas, it is "music conditioned and tied up with capitalist society."

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