This article offers a cultural reading of the 1927 Tariff Board inquiry into gramophone record imports. The inquiry was a staging ground for visions of musical uplift in a wholesome and vulnerable nation. The manufacturers animated racialised and gendered rhetoric in service of their proposal to protect the local gramophone industry. The business elites that dominated the Board readily assumed a role as cultural arbiters, drawing on aesthetic predilections to shape trade policy. Two themes emerge: the racialised threat of jazz music, and anxieties regarding mass consumption. This episode highlights the contested nature of modernity in interwar Australia.

本文从文化角度解读了1927年关税局对留声机唱片进口的询问。这项调查是在一个健康而脆弱的国家中实现音乐升华的舞台。为了保护当地留声机行业的提议，制造商对种族和性别言论进行了宣传。占据董事会主导地位的商业精英们很容易就扮演了文化仲裁者的角色，利用审美偏好来制定贸易政策。出现了两个主题：爵士音乐的种族威胁和大众消费的焦虑。这一集突出了两次世界大战之间澳大利亚现代性的争议性质。