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Wednesday, August 24, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
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Dave James/KANSAN
Studies show VCRs aid conversation
The Associated Press
LOSE ANGELS - VCARS are turning television viewing into video campfire gatherings — kids and parents are not only watching more prime-time TV together, but also are watching other more recent studies show.
"When a VCR comes into a household and the household has children, people tend to talk to each other more," said Carolyn Lain, a Southern Illinois University professor who has held video culture videos since 1984.
"They have to negotiate about what videos to rent and when to play these videos," Lt. said. "If someone wants to 'time-shift' (record) a show for later viewers the person will have to persist from the other people as well."
More communication is only one side effect of families adding VCRs to their television sets. Although many TV owners do not want to be are bringing people together to watch
a single screen, much like the camp fires of vesteryear.
In a survey of 233 homes with VCIs in three Midwestern communities, Lin found that 58 percent of the families spent more time watching TV together and 35 percent had more video parties at home.
"Pre-recorded cassettes appear to have brought back 'family viewing' during prime time. The film is G telive Research. Prime time tape viewing 'not only brings the family together but also appears to be a social resource.'
AGB, a British-owned firm that accepted with退票 from the motor for travelers to view the museum of viewers a set, tracked national VCR recording and playback.
The number of prime-time viewers watching movies and other pre-recorded TV averaged nearly three persons per household, according to AGB. Regular prime-time TV programs averaged 1.7 person per session.
household.
Studies by academic and commercial researchers now provide a profile of the impact of VCRs, now found in 56 percent of U.S. homes. Just five years ago only 10 percent of households had video cassette recorders.
Children are the VCRs' most avid users, spending 50 percent more time watching tapes than adults. According to a study from a month, children under 18 spend an average of 4.4 hours a week watching videos, while adults average 2.3 hours.
Teen-agers developed their own versions of video campfires, often watching tapes in groups at parties. Often they have little adult supervise.
Despite parent group fears that racy adult videos are the biggest video moneymakers, 1987 Video Software Dealers Association figures have shown that nearly 20 percent tapes are tops with nearly 20 percent of the dollar volume apiece.
China's only jazz band enjoys comeback trail
The Associated Press
BEJIING — After a tug on his smoking jacket and a nod to the piano player, Zhou Warrong snaps up his trumpet and unorks a melodic solo. "Satin Doll" never sounded so good, so far away.
China's only jazz band has hit the road, bringing its bag of favorites to fans in Beijing. The Old Peace Jazz Band of Shanghai, as they are formally called, has booked a week at the Kunlun Hotel's Function Room.
In the Function Room, Western and Japanese couples turtl to Zhou's condition of "Hawaiian Sunrise." A lone woman stares in disbelief.
"Us old codgers, we just do this for fun," said Zhou, 65,
the leader of the six-member band.
All of the band's members are above 60, with drummer Cheng Yueqiang the oldest at 70. They learned their trade in the late 1930s and '40s by playing the night spots that made pre-revolutionary Shanghai famous.
"Those were great days for jazz in Shanghai," Cheng recalled. "We played the Metropole, the Paramount. We had bands from America, the Philippine, and we played the competition was rough, but we had good times."
Then came the revolution. In its quest to clean up the prostitution and opium smoking that ran rampant in the city, the communist government closed Shanghai's clubs and banned jazz as "pornographic."
Cheng, Zhou and their four colleagues got jobs as music teachers at schools in Shanghai.
Later, as the country turned further to the left during the Cultural Revolution of 1967-76, the six players were curtailed. In 1973, the group was disbanded.
"The Cultural Revolution was a waste of this country's time," Zhou said. "All of us suffered. And even those musicians who didn't suffer physically, we couldn't play what we wanted."
"It was like creativity died here," said Cao Ziping, the band's piano player. "We just waited for a change."
That change came in 1880, two years after Deng Xiaoping took power and pushed through a series of reforms.
"The Shanghai government decided to bring jazz back to Shanghai, so that Christmas we started playing again."
In the ballroom, a Japanese couple took a few steps on the dance floor to a mournful retreat of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" and then fled to the back of the room where they lit lights dimmed and more couples swayed to the music.
"The Japanese are intense," Cao said. "They know all the songs and they love jazz."
Zhou said the band was started with foreigners in mind. It wasn't until last year that Chinese were allowed into the band. "It really feels like a place for me," she said.
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