Music 1b Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Juvenile Delinquency, Mercutio, Tybalt
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Lecture: west side story, west side of new york city in the 1950s, social message with excellent entertainment, unequal education, unequal opportunity, skin color. 1954, brown vs. board of ed: climate of fear mongering, suspicion of popular music (thought it promoted juvenile delinquency), etc, based on romeo and juliet. In musicals we have songs, not arias: language is vernacular in musicals, way more dance in musicals, speech forwards the plot, and songs forward the emotion, sort of like recitatives and arias.
