MUS 3308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nat King Cole, Hank Ballard, Paul Gilroy
9 Nov 2017
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Black music" and white music" are constructed categories used for marketing music in the u. s. A type of popular entertainment dated back to the 19th century. Theatrical stereotyped exaggeration of black features and lifestyle using music and dance, presented to a largely white audience. White actors used shoe polish or burnt coal to paint their bodies black. The jazz hands (with wearing white gloves) date back to very racist practices. Al jolson was active in fighting against racism in broadway, but contradictive to this he participated in blackface minstrelsy. Longstanding stereotypes that place black music in the physical realm and white music in the intellectual realm. In freedman"s article, black music"s on top; white jazz stagnant , he contrasts. Sweet commercial dance band music vs hot swinging jazz sweet commercial dance band music to represent white jazz music and hot swinging jazz to represent.
