Music Flashcards
How does music relate to location?
Where are the blues played? How long have they been played in that location?
How does music relate to human/environment interaction?
How do lyrics reveal the impact of the living environment on experience?
How does music relate to regions?
Southern Music, West Coast Sound, Bluegrass, Dixieland, Cajun Waltz etc.
How does music relate to place?
Beach music (surfer rock) versus the Delta Blues versus inner-city rap Does it matter where you listen to music?
How does music relate to movement?
Can we track the movement of a particular instrument, or the diffusion of style?
What happened 23 July 1967?
- Police bust the blind pig (a speak easy)
- Rising of tempers led to violence
- After five/six days:
- 43 people were dead
- More than 7,000 arrested on riot-related charges
- More than 2,500 buildings were looted and burned
- More than 35 million in insured property was lost
What is the traditional take on the demise of Detroit?
- Riot that led to disinvestment from the city of Detroit
- Election of Coleman Young
- Globalization led to the loss of jobs in the city
Does the demise of Detroit have deeper historical roots (name three)?
- Deindustrialization: the flight of jobs away from the city, something that began unnoticed and unheralded in the 1950s
Persistent Racial - Discrimination in labor markets. Racial discrimination remained a very persistent problem despite decades of civil rights activism and some improvement in attitudes and beliefs
- Intense Residential Segregation, a division of the metropolitan area into two metropolitan areas: one black and one white
What is redlining?
“The unethical practice whereby financial institutions make it extremely difficult or impossible for residents of poor inner-city neighborhoods to borrow money, gain approval for a mortgage, take out insurance or gain access to other financial services because of high default rates. In this case, the rejection does not take the individual’s qualifications and creditworthiness into account.
In some cases of redlining, financial institutions would literally draw a red line on a map around the neighborhoods in which they did not want to offer financial services, giving the term its name. Although the Federal Community Reinvestment act was passed in 1977 to put an end to all redlining practices, critics say the discrimination still occurs.”
Blacks were _____ than whites and they had to pay ____ for housing. They had a _____ time getting loans. Hence, they spent _____ of their income on the purchase of real estate.
poorer
more
harder
more
Blacks were, by and large, confined to the ______ in the city, houses that needed lots of ______.
oldest houses
repair work
How/ why do neighborhoods decline (five steps)?
- White flight begins
- Property values go down
- Taxes go up
- Services suffer
- Rock bottom
What is white flight?
When nonwhite residents begin moving into a neighborhood, white homebuyers perceive that the neighborhood is in decline and choose to not move there. Residents - fearing that property values will fall - begin to move away, even if those moving in are socioeconomic equals. Businesses and jobs soon follow suit.
One the minority share in a community’s schools reaches ______%, white flight accelerates until minority percentages are more than _____%.
10-20%
80%
Why do property values go down?
Once residents begin to leave, the consequent decline in demand causes housing prices to fall. The nonwhite middle class is usually not large enough to sustain market demand. (If whites represent 80% of the housing market, then 80% of the potential demand is absent
As prices decline, the communities socioeconomic level changes as well. Poor families begin to move into the homes vacated by middle-class whites, especially when these homes are converted to rental housing
