MUAR 392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ragtime, Nat Shapiro, Georgia White
20 Sep 2016
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Muar 392 race music and the blues reading notes. Faint tone of condescension in the 1920s music industry: phenomenon of the latin tinge. That"s gold in them hillbillies kyle crichton. General practice is take a recording outfit into the territory where such songs grow and become classics. World ranks the hillbilly ballads among the folk-tune wonders. Companies never imagined that the negroes themselves might be a market for negro records: many hid the fact that colored signers were being used. With bessie smith being successful, okeh saw the opportunity to dig up a new sensation. Greatest romances in the hillbilly business centers about jimmie rodgers, the railroad brakeman who fought desperately against poverty and tuberculosis. Best colored singer since bessie smith is said to be georgia white. There are some records so strictly african that it can only be understood by negros: eg. Sleepy john estes and strange melodies, voodoo chants, etc. Chapter 6: blues people and the classic blues.
