I heard in a Citations Needed episode that he funded schools so they would teach country music and tap dancing to children to suppress the cultural permeation of jazz music and some other non-white genre.
I thought he hated country to? I was under the impression he funded squaredancing since country music was to socialists, which successfully undermined that cultural movement.
I heard in a Citations Needed episode that he funded schools so they would teach country music and tap dancing to children to suppress the cultural permeation of jazz music and some other non-white genre.
Exactly. He despised jazz and black Americans. That cultural permeation of tap dancing still remains to this day in fact.
Damn now I know why that stupid fucking dance has such a large cultural cachet
I thought he hated country to? I was under the impression he funded squaredancing since country music was to socialists, which successfully undermined that cultural movement.
I don’t have a primary source but:
From https://qz.com/1153516/americas-wholesome-square-dancing-tradition-is-a-tool-of-white-supremacy
There’s quite a bit more about his Nazi ties in this article by Losurdo.