In Kees Wouters Fear of the Uncivilized he explains what people thought of American mass culture and especially the buildup of the Jazz music. “Both in the report of the government committee and in the responses from the classical music world, the churches and the press, the fear for an American mass culture to which domestic norms and values would be sacrificed, dominated […] Gymnasium pupils and university students of middle-class origin who, through record evenings, lectures, study sessions and self-made music, dedicated all their free time to jazz” (Wouters 50). It became very popular and it reached an enormous audience, this can be seen as a very negative development. People were overwhelmed with it and later during the German occupation