MUS 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ghetto Brothers, White Flight, Deindustrialization
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New york in the 1970"s: deindustrialization & youth culture 9/30/15. Ghetto bros. power (1972) r&b 12 bar blues. This album contains a message; a message to the world, from the ghetto. Brothers if the ghetto brothers" dream comes true, the little people" will be. Little people" no more, and make their own mark on the world . A symbol of america"s woes recession & restructuring loss of manufacturing jobs (240,000) defunding of public services. Nyc was on brink of bankruptcy in 1975. Us as a whole was facing high unemployment & inflation. Bronx made as much as other ny workers & 40% than other americans. Tv sports announcer howard cassell (1977 world series) Provide means to get through the bronx as fast as possible when driving. 60,000 homes destroyed / 170,000 relocated poorest black & puerto rican residents stranded racial diversity in neighborhoods = undesirable. 1520 sedgewick (completed in 1967); important to hip-hop.
