Their Stamp On History: Roberta Martin (1907-1969) Their Stamp on history. October 13, 2003. The Roberta Martin Singers toured across the United States and Europe in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. http://www.stamponhistory.com/2003/10/13/0001
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Extractions: Page 1 of 2 U.S. Tons of gorgeous big chrome, tail finned, dream boats! All the newest auto trends! The boulevard ride! Thunderbird, Edsel, Corvette, Rockett 88 and tons more! Film and television stars endorse their favorite models! Those beautiful colors they don't make any more! A complete two-hours!
Extractions: Page 5 of 6 DOUBLE FEATURE MINNIE THE MOOCHER 1971 Very rare soundies and telescriptions. Cab Calloway takes you on a tour of Harlem pointing out famous nightclubs of the 1930s & 1940s including the Savoy Ballroom, Small's Paradise, Club Hot-Cha, Tillie's Chicken Shack, and the Cotton Club. Very rare footage including Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole Trio and others. Marijuana was "2 for a quarter!" Jive talk and zoot suits. 2) LOUIS JORDAN AND THE TYMPANY FIVE 1940s The history of "the father of rhythm & blues" Louis Jordan and the Tympany Five. Eleven classic soundies including Five Guys Named Moe, Caldonia, Buzz Me Baby, Call Of the Jitterbug, Honey Chile, Beware and many more! R ock and roll before rock and roll was rock and roll! Great Boogie Woogie!
South African Jive Music - Recommended Records a wide audience in the European and american jazz scene Various Artists THE history OF TOWNSHIP MUSIC (Wrasse, 2000 African pop music from the 1940s and 50s http://www.slipcue.com/music/international/africa/aa_styles/jazznjive_01.html
Extractions: I'll admit, I was never a huge fan of modern South African pop, particularly the slick, upbeat mbaqanga pop, or the choral music that was all the rage in the "world music" scene in the mid-'80s... I always thought, yeah, it's powerful and dynamic... but kinda boring. Imagine my delight, then, when I came across the "jazz" and "jive" music of the 1940s, '50s and '60s, with its delirious collision of ska-like African rhythms and American-style swing and rock melodies. It's some of the greatest music I've ever heard. Completely irresistible, although a little hard to track down. Here are recommendations from what I've heard so far. This isn't really the kind of South African "jive" I'm talking about here, although it is the bridge between the classic style and the more widely known township styles of the Mahotella Queens and other groups who came to our outside attention in the 1980s. I prefer the older style, but if you like more modern South African pop, this is a really nice disc, and is surprisingly modern, considering that these recordings date back to the early 1960s. A young Malathini plays on several of the tracks. (Note: this CD is frequently mistaken for a compilation, in fact it is material by two different bands, mainly by the Dark City Sisters, which was the more famous of the two groups.)
ASU Research E-Magazine: Still Kickin'--Route 66 Revisited visual archive of northern Arizonas history, dating back as postwar prosperity and wanderlust gripped America during the late 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and http://researchmag.asu.edu/articles/route66.html
Extractions: Publication Date: Fall 2000 Old Route 66 was much more than just a road. It was a bonafide part of American history. Wild and winding, Route 66 was a 2,400-mile roadway that began in Chicago. It snaked westward through eight states and across three time zones before dead-ending into Santa Monica, California. Officially opened in 1924, then finally bypassed in 1984, old Route 66 seems to have been so much more than just a road. It was a bonafide part of American history. The road may have played just as important a role in settling the west during the modern era as the Oregon Trail did in the 1800s. Arizona Crossroads: Along Old Route 66, had to be more historical. Craft set out to learn everything he could about the road.
Transport Diversions Emporium CLICK FOR DETAILSIn the 1940s, 50s and 60s, the as the recordbreaking United States, the America, the sleek CLICK FOR DETAILSA fine history of SAXONIA http://www.transportdiversions.com/catalog.asp?likepubid=3133&thispage=4
Powell's Books - Used, New, And Out Of Print North Western Railway System (Railroads in America) by H Wilson Publisher Comments Experience the history and romance passenger trains of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s http://www.powells.com/subsection/RailroadsGeneral.11.html
40s-50s-60s Glass At Copperfield's Antiques 40s50s-60s Glass at Copperfield's Antiques Mass-produced glass manufactured during from the 1940s through the 1960s including Anchor Hocking and Fire King. - We'll gladly combine shipping on http://pages.copperfieldsantiques.com/526/InventoryPage/12061/1.html
Extractions: Click to Enlarge c1960s Early American Prescut Bowl - 40s-50s-60s, Depression Glass - Mfg: Anchor Hocking. This heavy, Anchor Hocking pattern was popular for every special occasion during the 1960s. Gene Florence lists the 2002 book value for this bowl as $6.00. Shipping and insurance to depend on zip code. Average within USA: $5.50
Department Of History Courses Taught to examine in depth four topics in the history of the 1940s, 1950s, and of television news; McCarthyism; and the crisis in the american university during http://faculty.smu.edu/hwilliam/CoursesTaught.asp
Extractions: Unfinished Nation: The History of the U.S. Since 1877 This course is a survey of the history of the United States from Reconstruction to the present. The classes will consist of discussions of the assigned readings, along with extra assignments and class presentations. From an interdisciplinary point of view, we will examine works of fiction, poetry, film, and the visual arts. Topics covered include the aftermath of Reconstruction; industrialization, urbanization, and immigration; overseas expansion; Populism and Progressivism; World War I; the Twenties, the Great Depression and the New Deal; World War II; the Cold War; civil rights and the woman's movement; the Vietnam War and the 1960s; the Reagan and Clinton years; and life in 2002. History 2398 American Politics and Culture: FDR to George W. Bush This course examines the intertwining of politics and culture in the United States from the 1930s to the present. Emphasized are the programs of the New Deal, the social effects of World War II and the Cold War, the revolution in music of the 1950s and after, the campaigns for civil rights, the role of women, the New Frontier and the Great Society, crises in marriage and family, Watergate, the years of Reagan and Clinton, and the presidency of George W. Bush. The course explores politics and poetry, music and film, all with an eye to a better understanding of our recent past and where we find ourselves in 2003.
History 4300 research to examine in depth four topics in the history of the 1940s, 1950s, and television news; McCarthyism; and the crisis in the american university in http://faculty.smu.edu/hwilliam/history_4300.htm
Extractions: History 4300 R. Hal Williams Spring 2003 328 Dallas Hall Office hours: 5:00 - 6:00 Tues. (214)768-3807 4:00 - 5:00 Thurs. America at Mid-Century Topics in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s A seminar for juniors in the History major, this course will use research to examine in depth four topics in the history of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: the making and use of the atomic bomb; television and the rise of television news; McCarthyism; and the crisis in the American university in the 1960s. As a seminar, it will emphasize close reading of the texts, active and thoughtful discussion, and individual initiative in investigating primary and secondary sources leading to an important piece of historical research on a topic important to these years. There will be no mid-term or final examination. Grades will be based on seminar participation and, above all, on the research paper.
History Of Advertising of television advertising in the 1940s at this The Broadcast Pioneers Library of american Broadcasting at materials relevent to the history of broadcasting. http://www.spectster.com/cgi-bin/search/smartsearch.cgi?keywords=history of adve
Timeline Of Costume: 20th Century Western Costume: 1940 -1950 Religious Dress Site Sponsorship Theatre history Theatre UAF american Family of the 1940s Paper Dolls Vintage Fashions for Women 1920s1940s With Values http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/timelinepages/1940s1.htm
Extractions: Weird Clothing Deana Durbin, 1940 Gary Cooper, 1940 Lena Horne, 1940 "The suit that bought a bond": Woman's suit made from an old man's suit. 1942 Authentic 1940s Hairstyles : Tips and Tricks For Creating Authentic 1940s Hairstyles Christy Lane's Swing Dancing Today Made Easy Everyday Fashions of the Forties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs Swing Style: Fashions of the 1930s-1950s Bras made out of old tablecloths 1942 2-tone dresses made of fabric remnants War Production Board guidelines for garment manufacture 1942 Fashions of a Decade : The 1940s (Fashions of a Decade Series) Forties Fabrics Nylon : The Story of a Fashion Revolution : A Celebration of Design from Art Silk to Nylon and Thinking Fibers Glamorous Stars of the Forties Paper Dolls Betty Davis, 1943
Nudist History Dr. Woycke, a history professor at the University of from the very first unretouched american nudist magazines. from the earliest issues in the 1940s to the http://www.internaturally.com/catlatemags.html
Extractions: Complete your set of this extraordinary Nudist Nostalgia Series today. Rare photos and articles straight from the liberal ’60s when social FREEDOM was not just a word, but a revolution! Featured are: “I Want To Be a Nudist” from Nudism Today (1968) • “4 Bares Before the Mast” from Metropolitan Jaybird (1966) • “Nudists of Southern France” from Nude Living (1962) • “The Friendly Beach Frolic” from SOL (1968). 96 pages; 8½" x 11". Selections of controversial, funny, and nostalgic articles and photographs from the very first unretouched American nudist magazines. Featured are: "What About Nudism" from Nude Life (1951), "Dance Naked With Music" from Nude Living, "Naked Truth About The Etruscans" from Sun Era (1962). 96 pages, 8 1/2 X 11 inches.
Swing Music Net - Big Band Music / Jazz History and 1940s was the only time in history when Jazz was the most popular form of american music. bands, utilizing the same style, long after the mid 1940s. http://www.swingmusic.net/
Extractions: Hear streaming big band music and Jazz from several of our past Jazz radio shows with your Real Audio Player. These are copies of our live Jazz radio show as broadcast every Saturday on KAAT FM . Free form radio, unscripted and unrehearsed. If you like Swing music or Swing dancing, music to pat your foot or pop your fingers to, or just something out of the ordinary, this is it. Information about our weekly four hour big band music radio program, broadcast live in California since '85. Details some of the special features we air including artist birthdays and WWII remembrances. Big Band Era Photos Jazz Radio Audio Archive Big Bands Swing Era Small Bands Now on Swing Music Net Mainstream Jazz Artists Jazz Vocalists Modern Swing And Jazz CD Recommendations RCA Jr Velocity Mic Hollywood Tommy Dorsey, whose band won the "sweet" band selection in the 1942 Downbeat poll, and Roy Eldridge winner in the trumpet section, are seen in action here with Gene Krupa on the Palladium bandstand. TD's crew succeeded the Krupa outfit, to which Roy belongs, in this popular West coast spot
Feature | A Short History Of American Comic Books is possibly the most important humor title in comics history. an updated version of the 1940s mystery man technique that would forever change american comics. http://www.januarymagazine.com/features/comix.html
Extractions: The first American comic book, Funnies on Parade , was a giveaway anthology reprinting comic strips from the newspapers. Wanting to get rid of undistributed copies, the story goes, someone slapped a 10 cent tag on them and dropped them off at a few newsstands. They sold out in a flash and so, in 1934, the comics industry was born. At first comics pages were filled with reprints of syndicated comic strips from the newspapers. Within a few years, though, these were replaced by original content. It was cheaper for the publishers to purchase new material from aspiring cartoonists, suffering from the effects of the Depression and desperate for any kind of work, than to buy reprint rights from the syndicates. Many early comic-book creators had no love for the medium. The pay was meager, the work grueling and usually uncredited. They worked in comic books in the hope that one day they'd "make it" and "graduate" to newspaper comic strips. Ironically, the first big comic-book hit was a feature that had been turned down for years by the comic-strip syndicates: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman Cartoonists often worked for studios that mass-produced and packaged stories and titles for the publishers. Will Eisner, best known for his masked detective series
The History Of Gospel Music The history of Gospel Music. gospel voicesfrom the late 1920s through the 1940s, the gospel it was these vocal groups that most affected american pop culture. http://afgen.com/gospel1.html
Extractions: Click Here for Audio Sample From the smooth sounds of Sam Cooke to the dancing, acrobatic vocals of Kirk Franklin, gospel music does more than just sound sweetit literally moves its listeners. Whether it's swaying with the choirs or tappin' along with the quartets or simply raising hands to the rhythm of soul-stirring crooners, gospel is one genre of music that needs to be both seen and heard. Once narrowly defined as religious, gospel has transcended those limits to become a profound force in American music and popular culture. Fueled by major recording companies, it has leaped over its traditional religious walls and is now more than just church music. Last year's phenomenon of Kirk Franklin's Why We Sing (it went platinum) and the current success of William Becton's Be Encouraged (a mainstay on Billboard's gospel chart for 28 weeks and counting at press time) attest to gospel's growing popularity. According to materials received from Gospel Today magazine, within the last five years, seven major recording companies have created and staffed gospel divisions; independent gospel labels increased 50 percent, and total revenues for gospel music have nearly tripled in the past decade-from $180 million in 1980 to $500 million in 1990.
Fox Theatre Atlanta, Georgia (Music And Theater) the Fox through many ups and downs bankruptcy in the Great Dep ression, a heyday as a premier movie theater in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, gradual decline as the http://www.ohwy.com/ga/f/ftetetaa.htm
Extractions: Online Highways Georgia Atlanta Music and Theater Atlanta's Fox Theatre, originally the Yaarab Temple Shrine Mosque, was designed in the late 1920's as headquarters for the 5,000-member Shriner's organization. It was a beautifully outlandish, opulent, grandiose monument to the heady excesses of the pre-crash 1920's, a mosque-like structure complete with minarets, onion domes, and an interior decor which was even more lavish than its facade. The decades which followed brought the Fox through many ups and downs: bankruptcy in the Great Dep ression, a heyday as a premier movie theater in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, gradual decline as the film culture moved towards smaller venues than the 4,000 seat Fox during the 70s; then a period of restoration and preservation under designation as a historic landmark, that continues through today. Lowest rates and Free candid reviews for Atlanta at Tripadvisor.com. Read opinions from travelers like you. Compare lodging prices from Expedia, Travelocity, and Orbitz. Location 660 Peachtree Street NE
Music Look Any novice looking to learn about american folk music whose careers intersected starting in the 1940s, were a film clips to celebrate the history and evolution http://www.starnewspapers.com/star/flook/061flmur.htm
Extractions: 'Spellbound by Romance' This show is bound for glory By John K. Ryan Any novice looking to learn about American folk music would do well to use as a primer the music of Leadbelly, Josh White and Woody Guthrie. These three legends, whose careers intersected starting in the 1940s, were a major inspiration for the burgeoning folk scene that took off in the '50s and '60s. Saturday night at 8 p.m. at the Centre East Theatre in the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, three current folk singers, who saw the legends as mentors will honor them in the tribute show "Glory Bound!." The production will bring together Odetta, Oscar Brand and Josh White Jr. to perform songs from each of the legends. The tribute also will include discussion and film clips to celebrate the history and evolution of folk music. The three artists being honored came to know each other through social protest rallies they attended and performed at in the 1940s. According to Doug Yeager, who conceived and produces "Glory Bound!," the three folk singers even went on the road together during that era.
Film History Of The 1950s responded to audience demands the late 1940s and 1950s single audience in network TV s five-year history. of the growing influence of american television in http://www.filmsite.org/50sintro.html
Extractions: The Dawning of the 50s: The 50s decade was known for many things: post-war affluence and increased choice of leisure time activities, conformity, the Korean War, middle-class values, the rise of modern jazz, the rise of 'fast food' restaurants and drive-ins ( Jack in the Box - founded in 1951; McDonalds - first franchised in 1955 in Des Plaines, IL; and Company - formed in 1950, although it had already established over 450 drive-ins throughout the country), a baby boom, the all-electric home as the ideal, white racist terrorism in the South, the advent of television and TV dinners, abstract art, the first credit card ( Diners Club , in 1951), the rise of drive-in theaters to a peak number in the late 50s (where young teenaged couples could find privacy in their hot-rods), and a youth reaction to middle-aged cinema. Older viewers were prone to stay at home and watch television. In the period following WWII when most of the films were idealized with conventional portrayals of men and women, young people wanted new and exciting symbols of rebellion. Hollywood responded to audience demands - the late 1940s and 1950s saw the rise of the anti-hero - with stars like newcomers James Dean, Paul Newman and Marlon Brando. Sexy anti-heroines included Ava Gardner, Kim Novak, and Marilyn Monroe - an exciting, vibrant, sexy star.
Italian American Culture - Online Italy Source contains information about Italian americans, Italy, history, 1 american roots music 2 1940s and 1950s Charles Dickens Brandy, Africanamerican singer and http://www.fondosocialeuropeo.com/italy/italian american culture
Extractions: Tool Links italian american culture Directory Home Encylopedia Directory eShowcase Sitemap Privacy Contact Us Top: Society: Ethnicity: Italian Italian American Order Sons of Italy in America See Also: Regional: North America: United States: Society and Culture: Ethnicity Club Pacentro of Detroit - Club in Detroit for people from Pacentro, Italy and their descendents. Italian Heritage Society of Indiana - Non-profit organization which welcomes all who are interested in the Italian culture. Along with many yearly activities, the Society also provides scholarships through essay competition to those who are of
