PPC Ch1 Features of Pop Culture

• when did sexually suggestive and ribald musicals start attracting American audiences?

  20th century
• what is an example of sexually suggestive and ribald musicals?

  Ziegfield Follies
• who produced Ziegfield Follies?

  Florenz Ziegfeld
• When was Ziegfield Follies produced?

  1907
• This included the sexy chorus girls, dazzling sets, and catchy tunes

  follies
• in its origins, this was all about entertainment on the stage through pastiche of music, dancing, and laughter

  pop culture
• what is the main feature makes pop culture distinctive of all other kinds?

  collage of elements that cohere int a thematic whole
• These are everywhere in popular culture

  Spectacle
• what are the features of pop culture? (SPNOMCL)

  spectacle, pastiche, nostalgia, occultism, make-believe, celebrities, laughter
• examples of this include musicals, blockbuster movies, the Super Bowl, rock concerts

  spectacle
• this is a specific kind of theatrical spectacle that features a wide variety of acts

  vaudeville
• when was vaudeville popular?

  1880s-1930s
• this was an offshoot of circus culture

  vaudeville
• it referred to the segment that opened and closed performances and included performers, animals, and floats

  spectacle
• the spectacle is usually ended with a trick wherein the elephants stand in a line with their front legs resting on each other's backs

  long mount
• in its heyday, it was the most popular form of live entertainment

  vaudeville
• vaudeville eventually came to be known more generally as?

  variety show
• this indicates that the vaudeville spectacle had become sanitized and thus more family friendly

  variety show
• this was an intrinsic feature of vaudeville

  catchy and entertaining music
• New musical trends introduced by vaudevillian stage

  jazz, swing (from jazz), bepop, cool jazz
• when did jazz originate?

  1900
• the roots of jazz lay in the musical traditions of what?

  African Americans
• a group of White New Orleans musicians which produced the 1st jazz records

  The Original Dixieland Jass Band
• When did The Original Dixieland Jass Band produced the 1st jazz record?

  1917
• one of the 2 groups that followed The Original Dixieland Jass Band, this was in 1922

  New Orleans Rhythm Kings
• one of the 2 groups that followed The Original Dixieland Jass Band, this was in 1923

  Creole Jazz Band
• who led the Creole Jazz Band?

  King Oliver
• who is King Oliver's second trumpeter?

  Louis Armstrong
• who was the most influential musician at the time of jazz?

  Louis Armstrong
• he showed jazz to be not only entertaining but also emotionally moving

  Louis Armstrong
• He was perhaps the first true pop music icon, despite his African American ethnicity

  Louis Armstrong
• by the 1930s, jazz developed into what?

  swing
• swing had its association with what kind of dancing?

  ballroom dancing
• in the mid-1940s, a new and highly popular style emerged. What was it?

  bebop
• unlike swing, this was not a dance music. Its tempos were faster and its phrases longer and more complex that previous jazz styles

  bebop
• this type of jazz surfaced in 1948

  cool jazz
• this surfaced when tenor saxophonist: Stan Getz recorded a slow, romantic solo of Early Autumn with the Woody Herman Band

  cool jazz
• who made cool jazz surface in 1948?

  Stan Getz
• who is the composer of Early Autumn?

  Ralph Burn
• who recorded a slow, romantic solo of Ralph Burn's composition "Early Autumn" with the Woody Herman band?

  Stan Getz