Download Day 10 - Pegasus @ UCF

Chapter 2
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Earliest (original) US popular forms (18th C)
Minstrelsy (1840s-80s, and beyond)
Stephen Foster – 1st US popular composer
Bands – Brass and other
Tin Pan Alley – the Sheet Music Industry
Ragtime (1880s-1910s) – syncopated piano
Phonograph – modern technology
Phonograph
• Emile Berliner invents (c. 1887)
• Enrico Caruso (opera singer)
- Discs sold in US (c. 1904)
• Chief form of home consumption
• Technology unchanged to 1980s
• Nickelodeons (5¢ a play)
• Juke Boxes (see next slide)
• Ex. Emile Berliner History of the
Gramophone Phonograph New Version
– YouTube
• Ex.Emile Berliner Record 1895 Sidewalks of New York - George J.
Gaskin Victor II Gramophone –
YouTube
• “Schizophonia”
Seeburg (1950s)
Wurlitzer (1940s)
Rock-ola (1930s-40s)
Juke Boxes
Seeburg
Wall-omatic
CHAPTER 3
“Social Dance and Jazz”
Chapter 3 (outline)
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Technology and the Music Business
“Freak Dances”
James Reese Europe and the Castles
(Early) Jazz as Popular Music
Dance Music in the Jazz Age
Latin Dance Music
1917-1935 (history)
• World War I (1914-18)
• Urbanization of US
- improved transportation (roads & railroads)
- industrialization (mass production)
- European immigrants & from US South (both races)
• Social changes
- liberalization, e.g., 19th Amendment (1919)
- crime (18th Amendment & Volstead Act – till 1933)
- “Roaring Twenties”
• Rising Living Standards
- automobiles, phones, radios, etc.
- beginnings of mass-media (unified culture)
• “Great Depression” (1929-1941)
Music and Technology
• Maturation of Record Industry (post-WWI)
- begins to replace sheet music
- Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra - Mary - YouTube
- “hit” songs (million sellers)
- Ben Selvin's Novelty Orchestra - Dardanella (1919)
- 100 million discs sold annually by early 1920s!
(US population = 106 million in 1920)
• Improved sound quality
- Electric recording replaces acoustic (1925)
- Microphone improves fidelity, shapes sound
• Emergence of Radio Broadcasting
- Commercial stations (1920- )
- Networks (1922- ): NBC (red & blue), CBS, MBS
Early Radio Broadcasting
Ex. The First Radio Station – YouTube (excerpt from)
Broadcasting's Forgotten Father, the Charles Herrold Story.m4v - YouTube
“Live” Broadcasting
“Soap Operas”
“House Bands”
Sound Effects
“Crooners”
Rudy Vallee
(1901-1986)
Ex. I'm Just a
Vagabond Lover
(1929) Rudy Vallee
– YouTube
Russ Columbo
(1908-1934)
Ex. Russ Columbo
- All of Me (1931) YouTube
Bing Crosby (1903-1977)
Ex. Bing Crosby, Anson Weeks and his Orchestra Please (1932)
“Movies” become “Talkies”
• “Silents” from 1896
• Sound introduced 1927
- The Jazz Singer (Warner Bros.)
- synchronized sound & songs
• Al Jolson (1886?-1950)
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- The Jazz Singer Premier Vitaphone Promo
- YouTube
- Mammy - Al Jolson (Jazz Singer
performance) – YouTube
- Extrait The Jazz Singer (1927) - YouTube
• The Broadway Melody (MGM, 1929)
- “Best Picture Academy Award”
- Ex. Broadway Melody (1929) - YouTube
“Freak Dances”
• Craze for Ragtime Dance Music (c. 1910)
• Decline of formal balls w/ set programs
• Rise of “Dance Halls”
- Live house bands w/ solo singers
- “stock” arrangements of popular hits
• Play by request (respond to audience moods)
• Threat to “morality” (overtly sexual)
- use of “bumpers” (to keep dancers apart)
- dances outlawed or banned in various locales
Dance Examples
• The Waltz (19th Century) 009 Late Nineteenth Century Waltz
and Loomis' Glide Mazurka - YouTube
• Turkey Trot (1900-1910) A short movie clip of the Turkey
Trot. - YouTube
• Texas Tommy (S.F. 1910-13) Texas Tommy Swing –
YouTube
• Foxtrot (1914-20s) 1920's Fox Trot – YouTube
• Charleston (1920s) 1920's The Charleston – YouTube
• Tango (in US, c. 1913) Valentino style Argentinian tango
1930's - Film 164 – YouTube
• The Tango Vs The Charleston - YouTube