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roots music examples:
"This Land is Your Land" Woodie Guthrie (1940) -wrote the song as an anti-patriotic, patriotic song to counter "God Bless American"; critiques capitalism because he is a communist "Strange Fruit" Billie Holiday (1939) -addressing lynching in the south -catalyst for song protest, under right of free speech -best song ever written according to Time Magazine, has been remade by Kanye~
African Americans and Hip hop
"White flight" - White people movin' into the suburbs; left AA with bad schools because good education comes with those who have money to pay taxes Politics of Abandonment -"Urban renewal" -RIchard Nixon & "Benign Neglect" Robert Moses rebuild buildings in NY -Cross Bronx expressway · Elevated highway, over the Bronx -Killed the Bronx Drugs -Punish certain drug use, but not others(AA were the only ones punished)
Comics- Historical context
- 1930-1940 - First Captain America comic punching Hitler when we are not even in WWII yet - WW2 - A major form of media- "Comics is journalism"
Historical significance of Rock n Roll
- 1950s - Birth of american teenager - Time of communist - Rebellion in teens- shown in movie blackboard jungle (banned movie) - Rock around the clock- first song to be released - War ended, America was flourishing
Comics- Historical Context- Juvenile delinquency
- 1950s - Parents terrified of their children - media made bad boy culture look cool and scare parents - James Dean - Fredric Wertham - wrote a study that nazis etc are not the issue - comics are and batman is making boys gay - Comic Book Burnings etc - comics are a mass media for child- 90% of children reading comics - "Teen" was being sold to those younger than teens
Hip hop- History
- 1970s decline of American Dream -inflation at 20%, unemployment at 10%, underemployment, deindustrialization used to manufacture but moved over seas/automated -wealth gap grew
First wave Feminism
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Susan B anthony - Right to vote and property rights - 19th amendment- women right to vote
Birth of American Teenager
- Influenced by Rock n roll, comics, and movies
Rock n Roll Music
- Little Richard -OG Rock n Roll - Good golly Miss Molly (molly likes to have sex) - parents are scared white girls are going out with black men (leads to miscegenation - sex between different races) - Elvis- "A white man with Negro sound" - Jailhouse Rock= first music video
Comic Book Code (1954)
- Marvel and DC took over because the other companies just couldn't hang - Strict codes on comics - Can not cross dress, no condoms, no birth control, crime glorification, etc
First wave Feminism History
- Natural rights were in radical demand - Got right to vote - Followed England's footsteps - Natural Rights- bible says women are more nurturing than men/ inferior to men - Women wanted a role in war- but women were supposed to stay home - Obstacles- cant abandon family, anti suffrage movement, stereotypes
Counterculture
- Opposition to dominant culture - Anti-Establishment (the government, man, police, religion - Sexual Revolution - Shedding of the masculine -Drugs
Batman
- Parents killed from street crime - Never carried a gun - Reflection of growing gang violence - Historical context- Gun laws started to evolve
Second Wave Feminism
- Reproductive rights, legal inn-equalities, social issues in workplace - equal pay - Civil rights movement - counterculture - Feminine mystique by betty freidan (1963) -expanded interviews of all types of woman, "emptiness", "unhappiness" -1968 Miss America Protest -Roe v Wade 1973 -Attempt towards ERA - songs- you dont own me and i am a woman hear me roar
Wonder Woman
- Women can do it all/women can save the world - created by weirdo in a poly relationship - new creators make the justice league and have her service the secretary
the radio: basic concepts
-Before 1920: limited to communication for war 1920: Americans were exposed to a diversity of musical styles; No way to "segregate" the airwaves Radio had-*fairness doctrine*: Had to present both sides of an issue for equal time and show an expert -First breaking news updates: when Hitler invades Austria in 1938: reported by Edward Aurmuro
birth of a nation: history involved
-Civil war happens -Emancipation proclamation -13-15th amendments -First KKK -race suicide ideology
college football: basic concepts
-First game in 1869 Rutgers beat Princeton -1880s new wave of immigrants to not speak english, catholics, jews, Sicilian immigrants -football -1903: first video taped game between Princeton and Yale -football was the shit because it was supposed to keep boys away from booze and trouble -1926 Rose Bowl - Alabama beats northern team -brought together America, made outsiders feel more american(minorities, catholics, *the south*- Alabama) -!947: first AA player to play in an integrated game in the south at VA
roots music - the blues
-Late 19th century south -Work song/spirituals -West African mysticism - mourner's garments (blue) -"Work songs" → keeping them motivated -"Spirituals" → thinking about beyond this life / heaven -Costumes, traditions, fears, and beliefs -Comes much later, civil war to present
roots music characteristics
-Melancholic, slow -Call and response -Change words often to fit situations -Communicated the hopes, sorrows, and convictions of ordinary people's everyday lives
roots music - folk music
-Music made by whites of European Ancestry, eventually expanded to African Americans traditions, customs, and superstitions of the uncultured classes -From the germna word "volk" = the people as a whole -Folk music is what "the people" sing -Older music
why is hip hop important?
-Not just music, but an attitude Accessible to all -No set of rules -Laboratories for musical experimentation Also a culture: -Language/dialect -Dress -Resurgence of black power movements
examples of roots music messages:
-Things will get better (usually response to racism and segregation) -Finding a job, food, clothes, etc.. (Great Depression) -Farmer's struggles (Dust Bowl) -Worker's struggles (Labor Union) -Critiques on the Government (president, laws) -Specific events (strikes, deaths, etc) -Defined how the people were limited by cultural constructions of race, class, gender
when hip hop began, what else was happening?
-War on drugs, other music was super white -AOR, soft rock, punk -Blacks and whites doing the same things, but blacks get much more criminalized than whites
monday night football: basic concepts
-first broadcast in 1970: NY Jets vs Cleveland Brown -American football league and NFL combined in late 60s to become the "American sport" -NFL film invented the way football is shown; drama in the way it is presented
1968 olympics
-picture of John Carlos and Tommie Smith with their fists up -Black power -black athletes felt like they had a platform to get attention about contraversial topics -Muhammed Ali had done and was stripped of his title. -When they metal in 200 they do the black power salute. How did people respond? Not well. -Jackie Robinson "has never been prouder" even though everyone hated them. -Muhammed Ali - Symbol of youth - discusses real issues
format of an ID?
-title/artist --? Who is the source? -what is the source saying/what is the main idea? -who was the source intended for? --> audience -what is the historical context? -what does it tell us/why is it important?
roots music: basic concepts
-weigh in on social issues or deliberately attempt to bring social change -window into cultural life of "the people" -Folk music & the blues
Grandmaster Flash's the message- 1982
1) #51 song of all time 2) National recording registry 3) This is the history 4) Didn't play on radio 5) Too woke
war of the worlds: main concepts
A) Radio show on oct 31, 1938 B) Aliens land in NJ C) ACTUALLY Freaks out bc aliens have landed D) Radio is the new form of truth E) Maybe the Nazis could win if we are that stupid (totalitarianism)
tying monday night football and context together:
A) Violence 1) Restful to watch football-type violence B) Coming together to support a team C) National anthem 1) Fly the flag 2) Fly over D) Money E) Girl free - Women's Movement RBG F) Gay free - Paulie Murray and City vote san fran
Hip hop more historical context
I) Golden age 1988 1993 A) Social Protest 1) Black Nationalism 2) Urban Poverty 3) Police Brutality B) Gangsta Rap 1) Thug life 2) Violence 3) Drugs 4) Misogyny 5) Ice T 6) NWA 7) F*ck the Police 1988 · Same shit different day C) Historical context 1) Public enemy · Fight the Power 2) 91 Rodney King Beating · Cops acquitted 3) 92 LA riots · billion dollars · 50 killed D) Cultural appropriation
Counterculture Music
Music had the themes of freedom/equality, counterculture values, and experimentation From Folk to Rock - Bob Dylan Acoustic to electric sound
what changed after Joe Louis?
The attitude of Americans B) How do they prove this? 1) First person accounts 2) Jimmy Cater
roots music is often found in:
churches, front porches, fields, workplace, parties, nurseries
The Blacklist
happened in Hollywood because they were thought to be communist -Second Red Scare- larger thing black list is a part of -People in gov't get nervous about communists and start having hearings -Hollywood is their display model -No independent movie houses, you NEEDED a big studio that had total control over you Context -HUAC - communist infiltration - Joseph McCarthey - communist infiltration - purge out the black, gay, anyone Evidence- Lassie becomes a big star, she doesn't speak can't be communist. Committee on the 1st amendment -Hollywood 10 that went to jail for refusal to say if they were communist. Why are people afraid of communism after WWII? -Afraid of the youth -Invasion of the body snatchers, move into your back-yard and look like your neighbors -Trumbo writing under fake screen name, he got locked up -He wins two Oscars under false names -Sacrificed this incredible amount of talent because of his political ideas.
birth of a nation: basic concepts
huge shift in the movie business -Griffith created Birth of a Nation based off a book by Dixon -Silent movie; made it classy by having a live classical orchestra -Used different ways/angles to use cameras that are still used today -Studios were reluctant to take this risk, so Griffith made his own production company to take that risk himself and be in more control -Minstrel shows: making fun of all people, especially former slaves
birth of a nation: higher level concepts
intended audience: blockbuster - meant for everyone, including African Americans to scare them off message it conveys: white savior complex, victimizing white people; all actors on set are white with black face to make them less human significance: if we give black people too much power, they will take advantage of it; movie sparked the second coming of the KKKs
war of the worlds
radio drama that many people believed Martians were actually going to invade Earth 1938 -Orson Welles -his interpretation of the war -Everyone freaks because they think aliens actually invaded -Radio is the new communication tool for news, entertainment, etc. -Whatever is on the radio must be true -When we realize how dumb they are as a society, judging Nazism and falling for that stuff, but then they fell for this. -Americans being scared of totalitarianism(maybe the Nazis could win if we are that stupid)
roots music: history involved
the Great Migration -1910-1970s -6 million from southern states to northern cities African Americans escaping Jim Crow/segregation/racism - brought Roots music to major Northern cities, spread African American roots music further than ever before -Brought the sharecroppers to the city
why is the 1968 olympics important
the year the world blew up basically -black athlete's refusal to compete in the Olympics so their rights can be heard. Same thing found in colleges on sports teams. -John Carlos and Tommie Smith Didn't wear shoes on the stand, put fists up, shared gloves. Prayed they wouldn't get shot on the stand. Said they only felt partially felt connected to their country. It was where they were from but did not represent them.
Run DMC
· Gold (a) Album 1984 · Platinum, Grammy nom, Multiplatinum · Walk this way Aerosmith · Proud to be black
Beat boxing
80s Daren Buffy
Superman
1938 - The big winner and mirrors what is happening in the late 1930s -Screwed over by big banker, hero of the depression - Can't fight Nazis cause his vision is so good he sees the eye test from another room -Creators of superman were jewish (he was created during the holocaust...) -Superman was the hero of the great depression as well as helped troops in WW2
Counterculture
1950's- children have power they've never had before -Businesses catering to them - comics, music, movies. Crazy teenagers - reading about homosexuality, listening to music sung by black people. Fear- people with power will lose that power -Kids will question all systems, which is what happens in the 1960's
monday night football- history:
1970s = Vietnam war - Kent State University National Guard killed student -Hard Hat Riot two days later after Kent State and the Pentagon Papers later released -Americans Disillusioned -bombing of Cambodia (neutral country) -hard hat riot (those who support Nixon) -During this movement the Women's Movement was happening too, RBG & Paulie Murray -1969 city office won by the gay vote - Dianne Feinstein -vets come back and are salty because America never intended to win the war Joe Namath - Broadway Joe Bunch of weird masculinity commercials
MTV
1980s- Golden Age of MTV a music video channel -Important because of impact on how artists will present themselves from here on out -don't have to be talented just have to look good -radio stations are going to change because people are watching these videos -MTV allowing black artists like MJ and Prince. What Madonna did ~scandalous~ -Created Gen X-Appointment television -Style: everyone dressed the same -Breeding ground for new directors -Beginning of reality TV.
Jackie Robinson
Black 42 Day -Didn't fight back against racism -Was actually better at Football -Idolized as the perfect AA -Spoke for all AA's on communism, calling BS -Used his platform to take everything people gave him (which was a lot) to be used in the best way he knew how.
Joe Louis
Boxer -Lost to a German; Congressman called for applause for German - Needs to win to beat fascism -Heavy weight champion of the world -Rematch 1) "Joe had become an American" 2) Won 3) Amazing support
Jack Trice
Died as a result of injuries in a game with Minnesota in 1923 First African American Athlete for Iowa State Representation of minorities in college football and the abuse they faced to break that color line
Feminism- Waves
First wave- 1848-1920 Second Wave- 1960-1980 Third wave- 1990-today
example ID:
Jackie Robinson was an influential member of the AA community due to his idolized figure in history -3 pieces of evidence · Wasn't the first AA baseball player (a) Football, ·Was good a good baseball player (a) MVP, was good, etc., Baseball was important to America ·NICE person. (a) American hero: served in WWII (b) Careful not to fight back
What are the elements of hip hop
MC, Djay, Grafitti, break dancing, but also beatboxing and producing
1968 olympics: main themes
Protest Idea that black power Black athlete protest Domestic civil rights
where did hip hop come from?
South Bronx - America's worst slum
1968 olympics: history
Stokley Carmichael · 1966 · Talks about: · police brutality · Vietnam and bombings MLK Jr. Assassination · FBI was watching the man who shot him, knew he had an assault rifle, and knew he was in Memphis. Did nothing to stop him
Hip hop- rappers Delight
White cover of good times
