Music and Migration

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Music and Migration

• The Decision to Migrate
• Push /pull factors
• Dust Bowl Migration
• The Great Migration

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Push and Pull Factors

• Research on Migration
• Ravenstein (1880s)
• Push and Pull Factors
• Push related to the origin
• Pull related to the destination
• Primary Factors
• Economic Opportunity
• Kinship
• QOL
• Life Cycle Issues

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The Decision to Migrate

• 3 Factors in the Decision to Migrate
• Similarities/Differences
• Information
• Opportunities
• Obstacles

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Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Migration

• Woody Guthrie Father of Folk Music
• TX/OK Panhandle
• Importance in Political Activism
• US in the 1930s
• Post-Depression Era
• Dust Bowl
• WPA projects
• Unions

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Dust Bowl Migration

• Dustbowl Factors
• Drought
• Monocrops
• Farming Techniques (Tilling Soil)
• Westward migration
• Lure of California
• Reality vs. Dreams
• Unionization

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The Great Migration

• African-American Migration in US
• 1915-1970
• Reasons for Migration
• Situation in the South
• Boll Weevils, Competition, Synthetics
• Sharecropper system
• Economic Opportunity
• Factory jobs
• Impact of WWs
• Discrimination?
• Migration Streams
• Ease of Access
• Connections with previous migrants

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The Great Migration

• Migration Streams
• Ease of Access
• Connections with previous migrants
• Size of Migration Streams
• The Role of the Chicago Defender

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The Great Migration

• Racially Restrictive Real Estate Covenants
• Impacts of Urban to Rural Migration
• Deterioration
• Suburbanization
• The Modern Day Ghetto

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Impact on Music

• Rise of Independents
• The South Side
• The Chess records
• Atlantic records
• Impact of European Immigrants
• Music Hot Spots
• NO, Memphis, Chicago
• Race Music vs. Country Music
• Threat to NYC