• How Musicians Helped Integrate The Silver Screen
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[QUOTE][IMG]http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/02/06/fletcherhenderson_vert-d89d73b1bc4b2565e863ae032d0428f28b24d313-s6-c30.jpg[/IMG] [I]Fletcher Henderson (not in article but I needed an image to put here)[/I][/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Swing was sweeping the country in the 1930s, long before schools, buses, baseball or even the military felt any pressure to integrate. Back then, every expert had his own definition of swing, but none saw what seems so obvious today: When orchestras started to swing, millions of young, white, middle-class fans suddenly began listening to the same music black audiences had been hearing for years. [B]...[/B] [/QUOTE] [B]Please listen to the radio broadcast recording and read the rest of the article here.[/B] [url]http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/07/24/205181866/BALL-OF-FIRE[/url]
Some day in the future people will also marvel at the day that Yo! MTV Raps first aired, introducing innocent white ears to this newfangled 'hip hop' thing that black youth had been listening to for years.
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