Scott Joplin had played in New York, and other great musicians followed in his footsteps. After The Original Dixieland Jazz Band played on Broadway, jazz musicians imitated the New Orleans sound. While not attaining the undisciplined and wildly erratic beat of New Orleans jazz, the popularity of jazz in New York increased drastically. The 1920s proved to be a Golden Age of jazz in New York. Jazz was diverse and appealed to people from every echelon of society.
From Vaudeville, Broadway, and Hollywood musical movies, to ragtime, jazz, swing, and rock and roll, all the way to television variety shows after the depression; the pianos of Tin Pan Alley are credited for laying the foundation for the many entertainments that have endured for over two hundred years. Before radio, people had pianos for entertainment purposes. This made Tin Pan Alley’s technique of having musicians pump out songs to then sell sheet music to consumers profitable since more often than not Tin Pan Alley’s publishers only paid a modest flat rate per song. The publishers had “pluggers” that they would pay to incorporate songs into acts in front of consumers. In doing this they created a synergy with the live entertainment industry that got consumers to buy sheet music as well as tickets to live entertainment acts.
Milton Berle invented what people call vaudeo, a new trend/vaudeville style. “The first major indication of vaude’s return is seen in the Texaco Star Theater’s premiere on NBC.” (p. 114) Milton brought vaudeville entertainment back and people loved this because it was comforting and made them feel good. Edward R. Murrow was an American broadcast journalist. He is responsible for the rise of CBS television news and documentary programming. Before TV he was famous for his radio reporting during WWII.
Swing music was dance music performed by big bands and featured complex solo improve acts by some of the best musicians in the scene. Swing was broadcast on the radio from coast to coast nightly and many Americans would tune in to dance all night to the upbeat tempo. In the 1930s, the Kansas City Jazz movement marked the transition from the big band style usually seen to the more improvised bebop. Bebop started to emerge in the 1940s and shifted from the danceable styles like swing, to more of a challenging musician’s music. Differing greatly from swing music, bebop was music that was supposed to be enjoyed by listening to and not danced to.
Jose Munguia Professor Hartmann English 152-03 1 December 2013 Success of the Wizard of Oz through Television The Wizard of Oz was a spectacular movie. The decade around Oz paved the way for many other amazing movies, which created new genres and set new standards for what a movie should be like. Some of the amazing movies that also came out during 1939 were: Gone with the Wind, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Of Mice and Men, Love Affair, The Hunchback to Notre Dame, and many other great award winning movies (Films101). Each of these movies have been awarded for their amazing directors, story, actors and visual effects. However, out of all of these movies there has only been one that has been called the most popular movie
And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!" The play got a 30-minute standing ovation on opening night, and it ran for over 800 performances. Stella was originally played by Kim Hunter, Blanche by Jessica Tandy, and Stanley by a twenty-three-year-old Marlon Brando. The play was made into a movie in 1951 with most of the original cast, and it was nominated for twelve Academy Awards. It's the birthday of novelist Joseph Conrad, born in Berdichev, Ukraine (1857), in a region that had once been part of Poland.
2. What was Storyville? Jazz was born in the brothels of New Orleans’ famous Red Light District, Storyville. In fact, much of the music in the District’s high-class bordellos sounded more like ‘parlor music’ than jazz. On the streets, in dance halls, and in Storyville cabarets like The Big 25 and Pete Lala’s, Freddy Keppard and King Oliver experimented with music so new, it didn’t even have a name.
Answer Selected Answer: True • Question 18 0 out of 2 points Shakespeare's plays often ended with: Answer Selected Answer: Soliloquies • Question 19 0 out of 2 points The Book of Mormon is seen as being more popular than groundbreaking. Answer Selected Answer: True • Question 20 2 out of 2 points True or False: The country's cultural life has, at times, been dominated by the Broadway musical. Answer Selected Answer: True Friday, December 27, 2013 3:10:44 PM CST Chapter 10 • Question 1 2 out of 2 points True or False: The towns of Champaign and Urbana have access to at least three community theatre groups. Answer Selected Answer: True • Question 2 2 out of 2 points True or False: The theatre- a tool of live communication- has responded quickly to a vast store of new subjects and fresh opportunities. Answer Selected Answer: True • Question 3 2 out of 2 points True or False: World War II has had a great impact in shaping the theatre of today.
Q1) what were the factors that traditional circus companies competed on? Draw the value curve for the traditional circus (Big league – Ringling Bros., and small league). Also draw the value curve for theater/opera. Traditional circus companies competed on price, aisle concession sales, key performers, animal shows, multiple show arenas, fun&humor and thrill&excitement shows. Small league circus are regional and they have less resource than big league circus.
As boomers came of age with their disposable incomes - that influence led the pop culture revolution. It began during the 1950's with rock n' roll, TV, Dick Clark and the hoola hoop, transistor radios, into the 1960's and beyond. Before that if you listened to rock and roll you were a satin worshiper by the white folk or if you listened to the blues you loved blacks. Problems in defining genre often arise because there are frequently sub-genres: romantic comedy might be considered a sub-genre of comedy, revenge tragedy of tragedy and gothic horror of horror. It becomes increasingly difficult to see where one sub-genre ends and another begins.