ENGL 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Oscar Hijuelos, Humphrey Bogart, Norman Rockwell
28 Apr 2018
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Department
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Professor
● Ezra Pound- in same circle as hemingway, stein, fitzgerald
○ Good mentor, always helped others
○ Experimental poet/writer
● Mambo- adapt Cuban traditions with Afro-American, American elements
○ Adapts it siilarl to Poud’s adaptatios of other poes
Oscar H.
● Archetypal elements of how musicians make it:
○ Play at ordinary/modest places then build up
○ mentor/ agent stumbles upon you and help to reach success
○ Industry exploits them or lies, takes advantage
■ Can go down hill (like Holliday)
■ Successful- break away & take control
“ate the Lights
● Broadway theater- refined
● Bowery theater- raucous, ethnic
○ Founding of Hollywood- minstrel show, yiddish theater
● Yiddish- combo of Hebrew and modern Euro lang/slavic language
● Bowery has thriving shows of Yiddish theater- ethnic
○ Connected to vaudeville, variety acts, minstrel
● No distinction between ethnic art and the group
Gershwin brothers
● Rhapsody in blue- clarinet (lyrical melody) full orchestra in background
● Product of jewish musical theater (bowery)
○ Combine classical music with jazz
Humphrey Bogart- Casablanca, often portrayed gangster in movies
Norman Rockwell- illustrator, conservative perspective- 4 great freedoms of US, sentimental (boy scouts
and military
● 19th c. audience Bowery- food served the whole time (ppl brought their dinner), performers talk
with audience during show, ppl threw food on stage if they did not like it
○ Unrefined, anything happened (fights, etc)
Oscar Hijuelos
● Opening- having fun, with friends, playing, excitement
○ World of fun, on equal footing with other fun
○ Music is just one of the things they did to entertain themselves
● Sentences- lists, congeries= word heaps, related words but varied enough
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Ezra pound- in same circle as hemingway, stein, fitzgerald. Mambo- adapt cuban traditions with afro-american, american elements. Adapts it si(cid:373)ilarl(cid:455) to pou(cid:374)d"s adaptatio(cid:374)s of other poe(cid:373)s. Archetypal elements of how musicians make it: Play at ordinary/modest places then build up. Mentor/ agent stumbles upon you and help to reach success. Founding of hollywood- minstrel show, yiddish theater. Yiddish- combo of hebrew and modern euro lang/slavic language. Bowery has thriving shows of yiddish theater- ethnic. No distinction between ethnic art and the group. Rhapsody in blue- clarinet (lyrical melody) full orchestra in background. Humphrey bogart- casablanca, often portrayed gangster in movies. Norman rockwell- illustrator, conservative perspective- 4 great freedoms of us, sentimental (boy scouts and military. 19th c. audience bowery- food served the whole time (ppl brought their dinner), performers talk with audience during show, ppl threw food on stage if they did not like it. Opening- having fun, with friends, playing, excitement.
