[78-L] My history of broadcasting course

[David Sanderson]

On 2/3/2014 10:47 PM, Donna Halper wrote:
> The students, all of whom have grown up mainly with rock and hip-hop,
> were very surprised to listen to what "dance music" used to sound like
> in the 1920s... They have had little if any exposure to the 78 era, so
> hearing the "hits" from radio's early years is very different from what
> they are accustomed to.  I've got some of those musical short subjects
> to show them, the ones from the early 1930s, and I'll be interested in
> their reaction.

The soundies, of course, are the ancestor of the godawful "videos" that 
have become so essential to pop music these days, so the students ought 
to be able to make that connection. If you look at enough soundies, you 
will find some fairly weird stuff, too. Look for Raymond Scott pieces, 
for one; and there's some odd Hawaiian stuff I've seen. And then there's 
a gem that might mean something to them - Hoosier Hotshots, "From the 
Indies to the Andes in His Undies," which includes the original of the 
scene that Monty Python used for opening and closing, the scruffy 
explorer escaping into the brush.


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David Sanderson
East Waterford Maine
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