[78-L] My history of broadcasting course

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Some consider other entertainments to be early form of rap, and a megaphone protruding through a screen comes close to the effect of sitting in a room listening radio. Parts of it are nearly as undecipherable as today's rap.
https://app.box.com/s/hyx1lvm267w097wre31m
It might do them good to have a listen "for what they hear they repeat."

 Jim 
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 13:16:27 -0700
> Subject: Re: [78-L] My history of broadcasting course
> 
> Talking Blues is also close to rap.  I wonder if this might be a Talking
> Blues.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 

> Subject: Re: [78-L] My history of broadcasting course
> From: "Ron L'Herault" <lherault at verizon.net>
> Date: Tue, February 04, 2014 11:52 am
> 
> I was listening to a CD of "The Big Show" recently on which Eddie Cantor was
> a guest. He basically rapped about the worries he had at the time. I'm
> sure it was not spontaneous but it was rhythmic rhyming that sounded
> very
> rap-like. I can retrieve the set (Radio Archives) and find which program
> if
> anyone has a burning interest. Donna's students may be surprised at what
> they hear.

> 
> 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.