Political Science 2142A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Original Dixieland Jass Band, Yip Harburg, Jazz Club
1 Mar 2016
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Lecture the jazz age & 1930s escapism. Jim crowe laws, rise of kkk and segregation\ Still laborers on the plantations, constantly in a system of: lyrics debt. Style that was performed by african american men who were able to travel to look for work mobile element. Harmonica and guitar crucial portable instruments. Style you see with those african americans who were able to get out of sharecropping and move into the southern cities (memphis, etc. ) City more permanent venues black clubs, etc. Lyrical based music doesn"t come out outright and attack injustices languages used tends to be allegorical. Anger, hopes phrased and put forward in means of relationships: instruments. Blues notes added lyrically for the first time. When a guitar player would use the neck of a bottle and move it up the strings of the guitar to create that twang sound. Holler technique singer would have a overcoming emotion. Adding emotional punch to song: wc handy.
