An interview (with added music) with the author of the book As Long As They Can Blow: Interracial Jazz Recordings and Other Jive Before 1935. An edited excerpt of this interview appears in the April 2024 issue of The Syncopated Times and at https://syncopatedtimes.com/as-long-as-they-can-bl...

... in commemoration of Paul Whiteman's "Experiment in Modern Music," at which George Gershwin premiered his Rhapsody in Blue, on February 12, 1924, at Aeolian Hall in New York.

Cornell Emeritus Professor of Music and Asian Studies Martin F. Hatch is the featured guest on this special. Gamelan and other Indonesian music styles (in recorded examples mostly from the 1920 and 1930s) are interwoven with extended interview segments.