• the Minsteral Show: white guys dressing up in black face
  • songs written in that era were made for these shows
  • very racist and appropriating culture
  • meant to be entertaining and hyped for white people
  • It was only acceptable if a white person was dressing as a black person but a black person couldn’t dress as a white person- wasn’t considered funny, it was wrong

These are wrong and it amazes me how they can easily make of other people and not be able to take what you give.

• Railroad and Telegraph
  • instant communication and transportation to different places at a time
  • changes space and time
• Time zones
  • changed how time is looked at because the time and the sun aren’t the same everywhere
  • the sun would be up in Maine for a while before Chicago but it is the same time in both locations
• electric light
  • people would adapt there hours to when the sun was up until they could just switch on the light, changing the factor of time
• Motion pictures
  • displace time and space and can take you back to where the picture was taken, you can relive the past
  • it is possible to go back to the location without being there
  • do we think in the way movies are made or do movies base on how we think
• • Flat discs
    • records: dominate the music world- people don’t have to leave their house to listen to music and they can listen to the past
    • acoustic recording era: no microphone- volume is controlled by where people are sitting
    • Music became something that didn’t have to be social
      • it was privatized
      • and permanent to how it is reorded
    • Electrical recording era- after 1925
      • could use microphones so everyone is heard
      • Ribbon mic- fragile
      • a quiet person- could be heard in a whole music hall- displaced location
      • tape recording- recording things on multiple different tapes for one final recording