MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Doo-Wop, American Bandstand, Chubby Checker
1 Feb 2018
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Musc 2150 - week 4 notes - jan 30/18. An example of an act on an episode of american bandstand: What"s this song about: dancing, completely nonsexual dance no hip thrusting or anything, safe thing about this is that it"s a single or group dance you don"t do it as a couple. American bandstand did something important for rock n roll; they created a national youth audience and a national youth dance culture; it has persisted to this day; some dances like the peppermint twist" and the y" and mashed potato". American bandstand imposed a dress code; they"re well dressed - wouldn"t nd leather jacketed greasers ; this was about calming the parents down so they would accept rock n roll; no sex directed dress code. Talking union, pete seeger: singing during rise of the union movement, pete seeger and woody guthrie were blacklisted during the second red scare because of their socialist views.
