Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Black Performers, Jazz, and StockMarket Crash

 BLACK FACE PERFORMERS


The Black Face performers were minstrel entertainers during the 1900s.  It is said that it was white performers masking themselves just to make fun of black people, who were the outcasts during this time. However it also said to be a beginning to era of multicultural performance art, since the 1840's to early 1900's brought the immigration movement.



 *The problem is indeed sensitivity to racial issues which can be true but the pillars of artistic expression need to fall down somewhere.  Thus the fourth wall of performance emerges...


Al Jolson a famous musical entertainer, and immigrant from Russia (of Jewish faith). He was famous for description of mammy, during the hits on Broadway during the early 1920's. Al Jolson was actually a beginner of trying to bring togetherness for the black minority and whites through comic/drama interpretation.


JAZZ

The historic significance of Jazz begins during the civil rights era, where African immigrants were slaves and worked laboriously on the plantation fields.  Jazz was supposed a swing term to offer a positive facade of emotion and talent for what was going on for the African Americans during the time. The term Blues offers more emotional into sadness and in depth feeling of story song, whereas Jazz itself embraced more of dance entertainment.

Originated in New Orleans and embraced itself through the US, especially suburb Chicago. Jazz became a generation of new style of music. Bebop, Hip Hop, and Rock and Roll emerged within its creation.

STOCK MARKET CRASH


The Stock Market crash 1929 was a terrifying event, because all styles of business and entertainment went into a huge halt. Bad economic marketers are to blame and possibly bad networking. Due to flow of enjoyment and evolution progress, little time was spent on worldwide flow economics. Money, Property, Stock, and Business income lost money and resources. This also lead to the Prohibition (ban of (alcohol) and eventually the great Depression, which lasted for years. Embrace of drugs, mafia, and illegal activity occurred. However the newspaper, radio, and television offered more widespread networks, and eventually became a future development of the entertainment industry, with the Hollywood pictures (Movies and Television series).

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