HIS 315g 1st Edition Lecture 5Outline of Last Lecture I. Swing CultureII. Bing CrosbyIII. Duke EllingtonIV. 1930’s Music IndustryV. The Great MigrationVI. Benny GoodmanOutline of Current Lecture I. The SavoyII. "Call of the Jitterbug"III. Harlem Riots (1935, 1943)IV. Battle of the BandsV. Whitey's Lindy HoppersCurrent LectureKeywords: -The Savoy-"Call of the Jitterbug"-Harlem Riots (1935, 1943)-Battle of the Bands-Whitey's Lindy Hoppers Reading critically the autobiographies of Norma Miller and Malcom X-Dance, movement, fashion and social changesoLife magazine declares the Lindy Hop "America's National Folk Dance" in 1943 Inventing Harlem as the place for music dance and entertainment-Highly sophisticated yet also segregated-"Entertainment capital of the world" - Norma Miller (reading) Slumming: affluent white people traveling to bad neighborhoods to attend entertainment clubs for musicand dance enjoyment, white people "own" Harlem in the evenings Savoy: very nice club, desegregated dance hall, very popular in 1926-1940 Cab Calloway: sophisticated icon of the times who was idealized as the most with the timesThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.-Always wore the right clothe and developed a vocabulary that established a status quo that people were either "in" or "out" -"Call of the Jitterbug" Whitey's Lindy Hoppers are the most prominent group of dancers during this time period-Norma Miller: author of reading -up the ante on Lindy Hop; no one has ever danced this well to this point, dances are so synchronized -> lots of chemistry between the dancers, innovative dance style -> how can we make this better -> adding acrobatics-Whitey was very controlling of his dancers, protected them highly, didn't let them go to other troops but only selected the best ones, monopolized the Lindy dancers in his
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