BL ST 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: New Negro, Hear Music, Ragtime
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Mecca: place regarded as the center of an activity or interest, place visited by many people (harlem, mecca of the new negro) Pass through cities and make jazz professor"s! Community that hears performer has profound role in construction of music. Dialogic theory of creation of jazz rather than burns" monologic theory. Diversity in cultures of early 20th century urban century. Chicago: eastern european, midwestern communities, old blacks, southern blacks. Dialogue between writer and reader, author and audience. Intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships that are artistically expressed in literature. Jazz artists - james p. johnson, willie the lion smith, louis armstrong, bix. Create entire worlds by responding to audience and what they want, creating new sounds for them. Ny = heterogeneous northern city for much of american history. 1900: 60,000 black people lived in nyc, in a city of 3 mil residents ( foreign born immigrants) 1910: 90,000 black people lived in nyc.
