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35 Cards in this Set
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Thomas Alva Edison
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-was an American inventor and businessman
-phonograph, the motion picture camera, and electric light bulb -mass production |
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Why did sales of the phonograph decline?
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-radio
-Great Depression |
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Why did people start buying records again in the 1940s?
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-Vinyl was used which is more durable
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When did recording and radio industries start to become popular?
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-after television became popular in early 1950's
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Lynching
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-"white supremacy"
-postcards -10,000 men tried to kill black men falsely accused of raping white girl -white girl's uncle said they were innocent` |
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-Jewish High School teacher and activist from Brooklyn
-Wrote "Strange Fruit" |
Abel Meeropol aka "Lewis Allan"
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Billie Holiday
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-sang Strange Fruit as song
-serious, emotional throughout song |
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What turning point was Strange Fruit between?
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-Jimmy Crow Law
-Civil Rights Eras |
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What factors led to the growth of Rock n' Roll?
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-Black migration
-Beginnings or racial integration -Growth of youth culture -Availability of portable radio |
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Elvis Presley
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-most popular solo artist of all time
-made black music popular in mainstream America |
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Where did Rock n' Roll come from?
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African American blues, country, jazz
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Rock n' Roll transformed the structure of what?
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-sound recording
-radio |
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Oligopoly
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-a business situation in which a few firms control most of an industry's production and distribution resources
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Three major areas of the music industry:
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1. Making the music
2. Selling the music (retails stores) 3. Sharing the profits |
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iTunes
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Sells 33% of the music in America
-no printing or packaging |
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Rolling Stones Cultural Influences:
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-drugs
-living abroad -exile |
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Rolling Stones Musical Influences:
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-country
-jazz -blues -"black" music |
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Rolling Stones Recording Process:
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-basements
-awkward layouts -hot -took a long time |
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Who sang La Grange?
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_ZZ Top
-John Lee Hooker |
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Colonial Newspapers and the Partisan Press
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-for educated, wealthy, white men
-mostly from Europe, news several weeks outdated |
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Zenger Case
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John Peter Zenger criticized a colonial governor and was arrested for libel (writing something negative)
Results: Decided newspapers had the right criticize government leaders |
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The Penny Press Era
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-rise of human interests and stories [beats]
-newspaper became cheaper because of Industrial Revolution -rise of middle class and influx of immigrants -crime/ reports/ scandals |
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The Age of Yellow Journalism [sales race]
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-Hearst [New York World]
-Pulitzer [New York Journal] -tabloid -highlights sex & sin -better conditions for women, equitable labor laws, etc. |
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Sensationalism
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-use of exciting/shocking stories,
-language lacks accuracy |
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Modern Journalism [inverted triangle]
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-most important then decreases
-dropped price to penny to compete -backlash to Yellow Journalism -Adolph Ochs bought NYT (upscale readers who shared unequal consumer dollars) |
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Interpretive Journalism
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-key facts in broader context
-post WWI -analysis and opinion -radio |
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Walter Lippman and 3 "press responsibilities"
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1. Make current record
2. Make a running analysis of it 3. "on the basis of both" to suggest plans |
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Battle between radio journalism and print news
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-after trauma of WWI, impartial, objective
-radio is home of interpretive journalism today |
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Literary Forms of Journalism
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-new jourunalism
-profound social change -complex info of war -adopt techniques in fiction stories |
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the quality of the paper's news and editorial components
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-publisher/owner
-editor-in-chief -assistant editors -journalists |
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Partisan Press
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press is biased to one party in their information
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Commercial Press
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business section
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what drives the business model of the newspaper
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-advertising sales
-distribution -assembling and printing |
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Reason for decline in newspapers
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-rise in network television
-competition from suburban weeklies -women working full-time outside of home |
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Financial Problems with Newspapers
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less subscriptions/newsstand purchases =
less advertising sales = less money = layoffs & consolidations of papers |
