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| books, newspapers, magazines |
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| records, radio, television, internet |
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| movies (are what kind of technology?) |
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| everywhere, unavoidable, you can't get away from it |
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the "freud of communication"
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| what kind of medium are newspapers? |
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| what kind of medium is television? |
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| a company has control over all levels of projection...makes the most money |
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| everything is entertainment, even news is portrayed in an interesting way |
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| cheap newspapers changed american journalism, made news accessable for everyone |
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| who was responsible for the penny period by making the New York Sun? |
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| biggest day for newspapers |
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| second biggest day for newspapers |
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| consistently thorough in coverage of business and finance |
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nation's largest newspaper
high story counts
splashy design
graphs/tables |
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| who founded christian science monitor? |
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| christian science monitor |
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| aided by church, circulation has fallen recently |
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| regional and national, leaked pentagon papers |
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| cylinder wrapped in tin foil, rotated against stylus and made sound |
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| who invented the phonograph |
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| first metal disk used for sound recording. could be molded and mass produced |
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| who invented the gramophone |
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| who invented analog records |
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| sound waves that were physically engraved into grooves of the record were converted into electrical pulses that coincided with the waves in the grooves |
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| brittle shellac disks and magnetic tape. developed in germany. 3-4 mins of sound per side |
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| extended play records, 45 rpm, one song per side. used large spindle. |
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| long playing record. 78 rpm. made of vinyl plastic. |
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| multiple microphones recorded, played sound back through two speakers. |
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| digital recordings captured sound waves. can carry 80 minutes of music |
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| who introduced the first cd player |
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| record companies' bribes to djs to play certain records |
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first dj
coined term rock and roll
opened door to white acceptance of black music
refused to sign doc saying he did not accept payola, was fired |
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| american country singer known for yodeling. |
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| the father of country music |
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| music handed down from the working class |
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| one of the most important country artists. 35 singles on the billboard country chart |
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| country musician, famous in pop crossovers. killed in plane crash. one of the most influential female vocalists |
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| coal miner's daughter. nicknamed "doo". sang about blue collar womens' issues (the pill, war, childbirth) |
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| music handed down from gospel and spiritual tradition |
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| folk and blues musician, played from jail |
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| recognized as master of the blues, esp from Mississippi delta blues |
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| willie mae (big mama) thornton |
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| first to record hound dog (covered by elvis) and ball and chain (covered by janis joplin) |
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| american blues shouter, "shake rattle and roll" |
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| combines vocal styles of country with up tempo rhythms of blues |
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| called the "king of rockabilly" famous for "blue suede shoes" |
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| one of the most influential musicians of 20th century. had many songs of many genres: country, rocknroll, rockabilly, blues, folk, gospel |
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| slang term for music by african americans |
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| guitarist. "maybelline" "rock and roll music" "roll over beethoven" "johnny b goode". crazy guitar style |
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| key in transition from r&b to rock and roll. frantically charged piano and raspy shouted vocals. "tutti frutti" "long tall sally" "good golly miss molly" |
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| one of the first rock and roll musicians. "rock around the clock" |
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| owned sun studios in tennessee. recorded local country artists. discovered elvis. |
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| formerly a truck driver. able to combine musical styles and put an acceptable face to them |
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| song writer and pianist. married his 14 year old cousin |
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| teen idol, specialized in "cleaned up" versions of rock songs (tutti frutti) |
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| made the moving horse motion pictures by arranging 24 still cameras in a row on a track |
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| introduced kodak camera and celluloid film |
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| developed the first workable motion picture camera and began producing movies |
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| first motion picture camera, people went to parlors to view these one at a time |
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| brought projection to film by projecting movie images on a wall |
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| film projectionist, cameraman, "the great train robbery" |
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| first exclusive moving pictures theater (in pittsburgh) |
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| the warner brothers' first moving picture theatre in new castle, pa |
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| produced "the birth of a nation" which brought him much fame and infamy |
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| a film about the KKK. showed that movies were not simply sources of amusement, but could be socially prominent |
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| biggest name in film comedy, charged with drunken rape and death of 25yearold starlet Virginia rappe |
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| founded Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors of American in response to public moral outrage at hollywood sex scandals |
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| released by warner brothers, first movie with sound (2 segments) |
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| frequently suspended by studio bosses for refusing to act in films they selected |
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| transformed Paramount into a vertically integrated company |
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| originated "block booking" |
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| selling films in packages... if a theater wanted an A picture, they would be forced to buy several B pictures |
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| adolph zukor's contract star, her films were enormously popular |
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| paramount, loews (later MGM), fox film (later 20th century fox), warner bros, and radio keith orpheum |
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| universal, columbia, united artists |
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| douglas fairbanks, mary pickford, charlie chaplin, and DW griffiths |
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| the four who formed united artists |
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| HUAC paneled 47 people in movie industry to see if they were communists, these refused to answer and were sent to jail |
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| charlie chaplin's first full length movie. huge success |
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| silent film star well known for athleticism and deadpan comedy |
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| silent comedy by buster keaton. very bad. contains the most expensive scene in silent film history |
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| many films contained thrilling chase scenes. one of them being in a film called Safety Last |
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