MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Emile Berliner, Duke Ellington, Scat Singing
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Lecture 3 jazz & tin pan alley age. World war i (1914-1918: among the most deadly conflicts in human history (around 9 million soldiers and 7 million civilians perished). 350,000 african americans participated as support and frontline fighters (369th infantry. Regiment harlem hellfighters remained on the frontline for 6 months, the longest of any american unit). 1920s economic prosperity: also called the roaring twenties. , a period of sustained economic prosperity. o. Social: intense modernity (automobiles), women"s suffrage movements (us, canada, Europe: 1917-1921) leading to women"s voting rights: culture: jazz craze, dance crazes (flappers, tango, jazz, foxtrot, etc. The great depression (1929 to 1930s: global depression as a result of us stock market crash in 1929. Took the largely the whole of the 1930sfor the economy to recover. Homelessness affected hundreds of thousands of americans (rise of shanty towns). Important musical outcome: radio became more popular (cheaper). Consider: econ: creates (another) musical commodity (that can produced and consumed)
