The Jazz Problem: how schools fueled the first modern moral panic | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
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On a brand-new Teachers' Lounge Podcast, we’re talking about America’s first school culture war: JAZZ!"Jazz was seen as more of a lifestyle, and so if you are interested in jazz, you were, as critics believed, also interested in drinking, in smoking, some degree of sexual activity. The belief was that if you could dissuade young people from not being interested in jazz, that all these other vices would would also go away."How the Jazz Problem set the stage for modern moral panics.
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