So With Each Generation Into Jazz, . . .

In Syncopation, 1942, the white people listening to the iniquitous music are wholesome innocents.

This morning I caught the episode of Hazel when the little boy on there, Harold, wanted to be in a 'rock band' (he played the accordion, I kid you not) and mostly it dealt with them having their hair long. With the old cut, what I called the bowl cut and then their coming it forward, they looked more new wave.

But the episode focused more on the rest of the cast, the grown ups, going beatnik, which the kids never seemed to do.

A few weeks ago, I saw the Petticoat Junction episode with the Lady bugs, the female send up of the Beatles.

So was it the same approach to the jazz in Syncopation as it was to the beatnik tunes on Hazel? Of course, other episodes, from the Munsters to the Flintstones, have their music focuses as well.

Hazel has been fifty years ago. Since then we have had heavy metal, disco, new wave, punk, rap, hip hop.

Has the music gotten worse, or is it the same thing, over and over again?

So why do we react to it like it is a first, both for those who like it and those who don't, insisting it's not like the music of our day!