A small aside here, this is just me comparing the rise of jazz in the Soviet Union and the America.
A small aside here, this is just me comparing the rise of jazz in the Soviet Union and the America. I find it very interesting that jazz both faced opposition in both countries, but the reasoning is very different. Its no doubt that the reason why America opposed jazz was due to racial reasoning: jazz was created by African Americans people and Jim Crow was still going very strong in America at the time. With the Soviet Union however, its disdain was due to its Western origin (both of which I think are unfair prejudices).