Media, Information and Technoculture 2159F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Juba Dance, Paul Anka, Why Do Fools Fall In Love (Song)

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2159F/G
• Professor: Keir Keightley

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This artificial segregation is eventually broken down and merged together to making them something eventually called rock n" roll. Allows the industry to make markets, make money: symbolic exclusion. Rock and roll is an attempt to smooth over the segregation: rhythm and blues for white teenagers, crossover music (cid:498)single girl, married girl(cid:499) the carter family. Tale of working class life, happiness related to economics. Feminism: marriage can be like an imprisonment. Harlem for blacks, country for whites (place: place allows you to refer to race (cid:498)cow-cow boogie(cid:499) freddie slack and his orchestra. Brings together country and blues, even though it is really neither. Trombone solo (in line with big band music) Truckin": term that seems to be okay, but points to sex, like rock and roll. Big band music, talking about cowboys and harlem. Tpa pop mainstream (cid:498)straighten up and fly right(cid:499) nat king cole. Crossed from harlem hit parade, to hillbilly country chart, to mainstream charts.