Pop Music class, race And Ethnicity

Question 1

How does hip hop link to Minstrel

Answer 1

White entertainment off black culture

Question 2

Azealia Banks quote

Answer 2

Hip hop is turning unit a minstrel show

Question 3

Minstrel origins

Answer 3

1830
TJ Rice
Industrialisation
Immigration
Slavery

Question 4

Rock N Roll origins

Answer 4

RNb and country

Question 5

Sub recording studio

Answer 5

Wanted to break black RNB but needed a white man

1953 = elvis presley

Question 6

What song did Elves take from Big Mama Thornton and act Black in

Answer 6

Hound Dog

More upbeat but with black soul

Question 7

Britain and Cultural Representation

Answer 7

Irish low comedy types

Couldn’t be used in America because of Immigration

Question 8

Why Minstrel?

Answer 8

Racism
Slavery
Lost world of the immigrants
Music publishing
Racial Misrecignition

Question 9

Racial misrecognition

Answer 9

All people are one way

Question 10

Minstrel survival into 20th Century

Answer 10

Emmett Miller 1960s
Hank Williams
Carter Family

Question 11

Lovesick blues

Answer 11

Emmett Miller originally sang it in blackface and putting on a caricature of black e.g fake voice and comic dialogue
Hank Williams then mimicked the style

Question 12

Carter Family ‘No more the moon shines it Lorena’

Answer 12

Couple in a plantation
Seperated as woman sold
Romanticised
White woman pretending to be black

Question 13

Genre and race

Answer 13

Modern RnB = fascination with caricatured culture

The way in which black people’s culture is exploited by white business men

Question 14

Love and Theft Lott

Answer 14

Misrepresentation
Minstrel = Slavery and trafficking
White mens secret desires, fears and attractions
Wwnt of cukureak exchange