Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sneeze? and sold it to Painter Katherine Dreier's sister. Enormously skilful with his fingers, he invented a number of mechanical and optical gadgets. From only one did he make any money. It was a series of colored disks to be spun on the turntable of a phonograph, giving different optical illusions. Chess playing for a while kept Duchamp from thinking too much about his own ineffectualness, but when he began to win tournaments against professionals he gave that...
...social theory of mysticism is less convincing than his observation. He believes that there are certain manifestations that are inexplicable in terms of mechanistic or materialistic philosophy-the experience of mystics, "psychic phenomena," telepathy, African witchcraft. He explains these by suggesting that man is a sort of combined radio-phonograph, i. e., capable of making music with things or picking...
...valuable bedlam of commercial broadcasting originated in 1920 when a Pittsburgh department store plucked a Westinghouse experimenter from his garage, where he was sending out an occasional phonograph tune, set him up as historic Station KDKA. Radio makers began to multiply like summer flies. Most of them were soon swatted by the proverbial vicissitudes of their industry. Relatively few of the early breed even survived for the cream-jugs of the late 1920's. Still fewer continued to buzz right through Depression...
...Dixieland disbanded. It was no longer a novelty. "Sweet" jazz, heavily orchestrated, was in vogue. And La Rocca, particularly, wanted to retire, go back to New Orleans. Hot jazz cultists who have learned to treasure the Dixieland's out of print phonograph records as classics and museum pieces never believed they might actually hear them together again. With the exception of Ragas who died when the troupe was in its heyday, the personnel of the historic little combination will be the same, although a few extra players may be added. Russell Robinson, Ragas' successor, who composed Margie...
With an old-fashioned phonograph strapped on his back, a sawed-off megaphone and a bundle of blank aluminum records, a lean, scraggly-haired New Yorker has been touring the South for the past nine years, collecting Negro songs that few white men have ever heard. Like his older brother Artist Hugo Gellert, Collector Lawrence Gellert is an ardent Left Winger. He scorns the idea that most Negroes when left to themselves will either sing spirituals or dance to the blues. The songs that fascinated Lawrence Gellert were those symbolic of Negro class consciousness, unrest and despair. From more than...