MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Blues, Class Conflict, Ralph Peer
12 Nov 2018
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All three, however, had a role to play in the development of rock and roll. These roles were defined by race and class relations in the united states as well as by the commercial forces governing radio programming and the increasingly popular new form of technology: television. Historical context: the united states in the first half of the twentieth century. Listen to a bit of the amos and andy radio episode the presidential election. this radio show ran from the 1920s to the 1950s, eventually becoming a popular television show. The characters in the title are a pair of poor, uneducated black men; the men who portrayed the characters were white. The show is an audio version of the old staged black-face shows popular in the united. States in the late nineteenth century: white people pretending to be black people and making comedic use of racial and class stereotypes. Listen in particular to the dialect used by the characters.
