Chico - you did well - please continue.

As long as some of the knee-jerkers want the baby to follow the bath-water - we should probably condem the European music camps advertised so extensively in the forum - they may have Aryian roots stretching back to Singing-Weeks.

Come on - poetic/musical quality is seldom given a second thought when it comes to "Pushing the Damper In/Out" - or "The Shamrock is Forbid by Law" -

Youth Welfare in Germany John Taylor, 1936, Bard-Ward Company, Nashville, p 102.

"The value of folk singing and dancing in the daily life of the youth has long been recognized in Germany. Under the Republic much time and money was devoted to the furthering of this part of the welfare program. If anything, we may expect additional emphasis in the field from the National Socialist administration. Courses for the training of youth leaders in this field as well as for the youth themselves have been held steadily during the past ten years. The so-called music weeks (Singwochen) have played a goodly part in the welfare program.

"Hirtseifer, the Minister of Welfare under the Republic, was especially interest in song and dance - it was a personal hobby. The Nazis are continuing this type of work in the Hitler-Youth quite extensively.

(In true Germanic presicion - a table of years, districts and enrollment numbers for courses in singing in Prussia is printed.)

"Each course was organized as an individual unit with much emphasis on the German idea of educative living - a group of individuals living and working and learning together....

"....Emphasis is placed upon the education of the German youth away from the so-called Negro and jazz music, as well as the modern dance.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle