{"id":29090,"date":"2011-12-09T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=29090"},"modified":"2024-05-28T16:46:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T23:46:28","slug":"the-immorality-of-sax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2011\/the-immorality-of-sax\/","title":{"rendered":"The Immorality Of Sax"},"content":{"rendered":"
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King Saxello Serial No. 837XX Source: Randy Cole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If there was some way to travel back in time\u2014only for a visit, mind you\u2014I would really like to go back to the early part of the 20th century, and witness firsthand some of the sax-hysteria that appeared to have gripped public officials.<\/p>\n

Law makers and politicians seemed to have obsessed about how to deal with the low-brow artist, known as a saxophone player, and the low-brow art form he created.<\/p>\n

In an article from the August 3, 1925 edition of the Youngstown Vindicator<\/em><\/a>, the headline read: SAXOPHONE MUSIC IS BRANDED AS IMMORAL.<\/p>\n

Apparently the Washington Police were trying to define “indecent music”. (I suspect you can see where this is going.) Fortunately for them, they had the expertise<\/em> of Sergt. Ronda Milliken, of the women’s bureau to rely upon.<\/p>\n

Milliken opined that “any music played on a saxophone is immoral”, and therefore should be considered “indecent music” under the then recently enacted statute.<\/p>\n

Sergt. Milliken’s opinion did not go unchallenged, however. Officer Clarence Tally contradicted her views, since he had taken up playing the saxophone.<\/p>\n

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Any music played on a saxophone is immoral.<\/div>[\/perfectpullquote]<\/p>\n

I have to ask myself, did other instruments have this tough a time with politicians? It would certainly be worth some research.<\/p>\n

I am curious to know if instruments like the electric guitar, might have caused law makers and politicians some sleepless nights, as they thought about how it was causing the erosion of society as they knew it. Perhaps by then, society had shifted enough that instruments were no longer as easy a target.<\/p>\n

What about before the saxophone. Did other instruments get singled out for persecution?<\/p>\n

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