Wasn't Benny Goodman a lefty and something of a fellow traveler with the CPUSA?
Jim F.
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:56:43 -0800 Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
writes:
> A member of the Young Communist League in the late 30's on the
> way
> young comrades dance in that diamat shuffle. (Paraphrase, since I
> can't
> look up the quote in the dozens of books I have on the CPUSA.)
> "Oh heaven's no! We like to dance, listen to Benny Goodman, too
> just like
> any other normal kids. We're just into dialectical materialism,
> too."
> Cf. Stanley Aronowitz nice memoir of a Popular Front upbringing
> in, "Roll
> Over Beethoven."
> Also, at Modern Times saw a nice new coffeetable book from Yale
> Univ.
> Press, if memory serves, on American Communism and Art from the 30's
> and
> 40's.
>
> --
> Michael Pugliese
>
> I got an axe-handle pistol
> with a graveyard frame.
> It shoots tombstone bullets
> wearing balls and chains.
> I'm drinking TNT.
> I'm smokin' dynamite.
> I hope some screwball
> start's a fight,
> 'cause I'm ready,
> ready,
> ready
>
> Muddy Waters, "I'm Ready."
>
>
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