CRES 197 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-xx: Slapstick, Duke Ellington, Cakewalk

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
• Course: CRES 197
• Professor: John Remo Gennari

Document Summary

1930s: impatience among blacks with the historical need to mask their emotions in front of white people or their gaze, fight for recognition of individual self-expression. Migration moving north and west: dynamic language and mobile music, big band swing and hipster jive portable expressions of american society"s. 1920s northern migration of southern stereotypes in the names of the clubs. Readable public front does this occur now according to page 245 *poise in a world where they have no authority* White audiences were looking for the wild energy and therapeutic escape from guilt and the work ethic what they are looking for. They want everybody who is a negro to be a uncle tom or uncle remus or uncle sam, and i can"t make it. Uncle sam the regular-guy soldier who disowned his cultural heritage. Uncle remus the desexualized old man who distributed folk wisdom.