Outrageous Quotes

“Music should be censored,” said Moissaye Boguslawski of the Chicago Symphony. “There is censorship for the film and for the stage, yet none for music, for which it is even more needed. I believe much recent criminal endeavor by youths has to a degree been influenced by jazz. Americans probably would not be so highly flattered if they knew they were paying tribute to the music of Africa.”
― Kliph Nesteroff, Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars

“Samuel Morse, the man for whom the Morse Code was named, was convinced immigrants were destroying America. “A conspiracy exists … its plans are already in operation,” he wrote. “The serpent has already commenced his coil about our limbs, and the lethargy of his poison is creeping over us … We must awake, or we are lost.”
― Kliph Nesteroff, Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars

“The Partridge Family. In his episode, the Partridge Family’s multicolored bus breaks down in a Black neighborhood.”
― Kliph Nesteroff, Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars

“The John Birch Society spread a rumor that the Beatles had been devised by the Soviets to destabilize America.”
― Kliph Nesteroff, Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars