The Great Migration

How was Music Shaped by the Great Migration?

• They convert Blues and Gospel to all genres of music. Where they got to create and record music, inventing new types. 

• Without this, Motown would not be created. He was surrounded by children of the Great Migration - whose parents brought them here during the great migration. 

• We might not know Diana Ross name had there been a great migration. 

Why is the Great Migration Important?

• It was a case of lower caste people having options and being willing to take them. 

• They were able to choose for themselves, what they could do and where they would chose to do. 

• On those fields were opera singers, jazz musicians, playwrights, novelists, attorneys, accountants, professors, journalists. They could chose what they wanted to become, and chose for themselves. Without them, no Tony Morrison - She was able to walk into a library and take out a library book! By making that decision to leave, they were able to get access to books. 

Where did people Migrate?

• Louisiana and Texas out to California

• Before Great Migration, 90% lived in Jim Crow South. When it was over, nearly half were living all over the country. 

• It was a distribution of people. 

Were sharecroppers not being paid?

Yeah. The South didn’t take kindly to its poaching of cheap labor. They would arrest punitively free American citizens. If there were too many they would wave the train on through. 

What is an example of the arcane cast system?

• A Black and White person could not play checkers in Burmingham. 

What did African Americans had to do?

• They had to leave their place of birth, and needed to pretend to be immigrants to be recognized as citizens. They were defecting a cast system known as Jim Crow.

What is The Great Migration?

• Outpouring of six million African Americans from Jim Crow South to other US From World War I to 1970s. 

Who usually immigrates?

Young people.

Who were caricatures? 

• Loyal toms, faithful mammies, carefree mambos, grinning coons, savage brutes and wide eye pickannies. 

What did the images in Ethic notions do?

• They permeated American society and made stereotypes that are dehumanizing, dangerous, ,harmful and not true. 

What did the damaging stereotypes do?

• They justified enslavement and inferiority of African Americans

Where does the stereotypical images from Ethic notions derive from? 

• The enslavement of Africans

What are the Two Points of Representation?

1. “The idea of giving”

2. “Representation is the way in which meaning is somewhat given to things depicted…through the images of whatever it is on screen, or the words on a page which stands for what we are talking about.”