at least one complained about it! In an interview for The Etude in 1921, the Swedish opera singer Julia Claussen expressed herself at length about her dislike of these new musical styles:

I never permit my children to pollute my piano with it. They may have it on the talking machine, but they must not be accomplices in making it.

In a blare and confusion of noises, like bedlam broken loose, what chance has a child to develop good taste? It is admittedly fascinating at times; but is without rhyme, reason or order.

I hear my daughters practicing, and now and then they seem to be putting a dash of ragtime into Bach.

Before America can go about musical educational work properly, the teachers must inculcate this spirit, a proper appreciation of what is really beautiful, instead of a kind of wild, mob-like orgy of blare, bang, smash and shriek which so many have come to know as ragtime and jazz.

you can read more here: http://etudemagazine.com/etude/1921/04/julia-claussen---modern-roads-to-vocal-success.html