AMCULT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sharecropping, Demography Of The United States, Ernest Hemingway
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Lecture #3: my black/white roots the aesthetics of the cool. Cool vs. hip: the external expression of the internal conviction of hip. Semantic trail: 15th century african king used eware to mean it is cool . Cool: composure/balance in the way we present ourselves. Not synonymous with hip ( cool on the inside, beliefs, internal enlightenment/awareness) 1876-1915: cool was a protective armor in the transition between victorianism and modernism. Adapt to mass production and media: jazz, harlem renaissance, lost generation. Living on half a world: pop culture: and/both, rather than either/or. You cannot exist without the other in american culture creates a vacuum in world view. If you are part of america you seek reflection in popular culture that is both black and white. 1910-1920s: interplay of cultures accelerated by changes in technology. Piano, record players, radio, movies: the medium becomes the message . Black artists performing in white, segregated clubs while white actors performed in blackface.
