[78-L] My history of broadcasting course

[David Sanderson]

On 2/5/2014 11:54 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> On 2/4/2014 4:02 AM, David Sanderson wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
> ...aaaaaand here they are!
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5U8iJ0fEns
> Malcolm

Yes, indeed - and note the spoken lyrics, yet another instance of what 
we have been talking about.

A footnote - I chose the Byron Harlan example as relating to rap in part 
because his tone matches the direct and confrontational tone of rap. 
Listen to the recording if you need to hear what I mean.


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David Sanderson
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