Similar to Will Eisner’s discussion of the evolution of the medium of comics (or “sequential art” as he calls it) is this 1953 Disney cartoon which rehearses the evolutionary history of music as a medium.
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Prince Ali’s Magic Tube
This advertisement for Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation ran in Collier’s in 1944 — before television sets were even in mass production–reassures audiences that this newfangled device isn’t as new as it may appear.
rhythm is gonna get you
Gloria Estefan – Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
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According to wikipedia, “Tiki refers to …
According to wikipedia, “Tiki refers to large wood and stone carvings of humanoid forms in Central Eastern Polynesian cultures of the Pacific Ocean. The term is also used as it relates to Māori mythology where Tiki is the first man.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiki I have no idea about the accuracy of these claims, but what’s interesting of course is that this idea would have so much resonance for White men in the 1950s. What’s also interesting is the way it quickly became massified in the form of plastic tiki beer mugs.
Quotes from The Cultural Politics of Emotion, by Sara Ahmed
“We can see from this language that evolutionary thinking has been crucial to how emotions are understood: emotions get narrated as a sign of ‘our’ prehistory, and as a sign of how the primitive persists in the present. The Darwinian model of emotions suggests that emotions are not only ‘beneath’ but ‘behind’ the man/human, as a sign of an earlier and more primitive time. As Darwin puts it:
With mankind some expressions, such as the bristling of the hair under the influence of extreme terror, or the uncovering of teeth under that of furious rage, can hardly be understood, except on the belief that man once existed in a much lower and animal-like condition. (Darwin, 1904: 13-14)
[. . .] “The story of evoltion is narrated not only as the story of the triumph of reason, but of the ability to control emotions, and to experience the ‘appropriate’ emotions at different times and places.”
From Ahmed, Sara The Cultural Politics of Emotion.Routledge: New York. 2004: 3.
Libby Holman sings Cole Porter’s “Find me a Primitive Man”
“I don’t mean the kind that belongs to a club but the kind who has a club that belongs to him”
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