HIS 315g 1st Edition Lecture 16Outline of Last Lecture I. Motown; Vandellas& Marvin GayeII. RiotsIII. Fall of MotownIV. Blackness on TVV. Nixon’s Silent MajorityOutline of Current Lecture I. Black sitcomsII. Urban CrisisIII. LatinizationCurrent LectureBlack sitcoms transform from color-blind atmospheres where black people are really just white characters with black skin to where blacks are portrayed as stuck in the ghetto, no way out and with many "bafoon" characters-Don't make the ghetto look bad, make it look live-able when it really wasn't What is actually transpiring in urban cities? Increased racial segregation even during encouraged integration; "White Flight" and "Urban crisis" are problems that white people are having with black people congregating in the cities-Leads to the set-up of suburban areas and schools to get away from the black peopleWhy all the poverty? Many industries and factories are shutting their doors as they export their jobs overseas to find cheaper labor-Unemployment increases significantly -Populations drop in the cities and poverty increases by 22% -Lack of jobs contributes to all of the riots that occur during this time Latinization of New York occurs throughout the 20th century-Jones act grants citizenship to Puerto Ricans so we would have more bodies for WWI-Many Puerto Ricans end up settling in inner-city ghettosPuerto Rican radicalists "The Young Lords" begin to demand self-determination and liberation of Puerto Rico from the US Latin Rhythms and Rock n' Roll These 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.Tito Puente to Santana: Santana modernizes Tito Puente's music Profound craze over the Mambo through the 40's and 50's; immense popularization of latin music-Mambo sound gets picked up and interpreted into rock and roll but Latin influence and authorship gets completely lost! A new place to dance in New York: The Paladium-Right down the street from the Brill Building; a significant way that these sounds gotinfiltrated into pop music and lost their
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