MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Original Dixieland Jass Band, James Reese Europe, Victor Talking Machine Company
4 Oct 2016
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Ww1 (1914-1918: among the most deadly conflicts in human history (around 9 million soldiers and 7 million civilians died, 350,000 african americans participated as support and frontline fighters, furthered technological development. 1920"s economic prosperity: also called the roaring twenties , social: intense modernity (automobiles), women"s suffrage movements leading women to voting rights, culture: jazz craze, dance crazes, art deco, harlem renaissance the. The great depression (1929-30s: global depression as a result of us stock market crash in 1929, took largely all of the 30s for the economy to recover, social impact: Important musical outcomes, radio became more popular as it was free. : creates musical commodity and can be reproduced and consumed. Can monitor patterns of production and consumption. : music transits relatively unchanged through space (geography) and time (generations) Original context potentially becomes disconnected from sound production. Sound waves etched onto a foil or wax coated cylinders. 1890: nickelodeons (later jukeboxes) played the hits (located in public spaces)
