MUSA1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nbc, American Broadcasting Company, Cbs
11 Oct 2016
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Ww1 reinforces american influence overseas and stimulates and reorganized the economy. Migration from the economy to the city, and from south to north was important. Photographs, radio, hollywood films, and tabloid newspapers began to create a unified national. Immigrants from central and eastern europe added to the cultural heterogeneity of big cities popular culture. Modern organized crime rose to new heights partly due to the prohibition. Prohibition was good for music because speakeasies (underground night clubs) promoted music. The ku klux klan and other racist, anti-immigrant groups flourished. During the 1920s unprecedented profit levels in the music business led to a bolstering of the centers of influence, especially in new york. Convict leasing- companies would hire people in jail (convicts) to work for them for very cheap. This lead to the rise of the incarceration of black people. The phonograph was introduces into millions of american homes.
