and Black Power Television (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015), 217, 72. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1562_1_70', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1562_1_70').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); While Soul! c. Los Angeles Sisters Gwendolyn and Lena Horton, for example, regularly walked from the Walnut Terrace neighborhood to appear on the show. By the time Clark delivered a revampedBandstandto national audiences asAmerican Bandstandin 1957, the show was ostensibly squeaky clean. WRAL's mailing to advertisers also included a list of the schools and organizations that had visited the show. Screenshot courtesy of Matthew F. Delmont. This eclipse is the result of a concerted effort by cultural gatekeepers, across several decades, to valorise certain aspects of the African-American experience while denigrating others. 1963. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1562_1_51', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1562_1_51').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); Looking backon his earlier radio career, King recalled, "In those days what I was playing was called 'race music.' New records come out every day and you play old ones. American Bandstandwas by no means Dick Clarks only entrepreneurial venture. Hard-drinking, hedonistic, recklessly generous and sometimes violent, she sold a record-breaking 780,000 copies of her debut single, 1923's Downhearted Blues, in just six months and bought her own Pullman railway car to travel in. The Beach Boys were already the kings of surf pop by their first appearance on American Bandstand in 1964. DIck Clark: The Black music connection and more . A lot of rock and roll today is bordering on what is called 'popular music.'"52Ibid. In a long list of reasons why "we find it difficult to wait," King includes, "when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental skythen you will understand why we find it difficult to wait." At the same time, the classic blues singers were too working-class and sexually frank for some of the urban middle classes. This obsession with the "genuine" black experience proved fatal for the classic blues. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1562_1_39', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1562_1_39').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); "When black schools closed," historian David Cecelski writes, "their names, mascots, mottos, holidays, and traditions were sacrificed with them, while students were transferred to historically white schools that retained those markers of cultural and racial identity.
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