Ep. 18 - How Could You, Curtis? - Dreamgirls (1981) - a podcast by Jonah Wilkinson
from 2021-01-15T16:00:09
We're finally back! We have a new years resolution for the pod, but what is it? Will we stick to it? I guess you'll have to see in this episode where Jonah and MJ discuss Dreamgirls. Between arguing wether or not CC is a coward, if artistic integrity really is everything, if this could have just been the Jennifer Holiday show, and why Jonah brought JFK up for no apparent reason, Dreamgirls made the perfect vehicle to ring in the new year.
Notes
Dreamgirls at the Tonys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUIPKdcKKVI
More Cowbell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsQLlk-T0s
Here’s a paper regarding cultural appropriation and music
https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/91803/original/Hall%252B-%252BAfrican-American%252BMusic%252B-%252BDynamics%252Bof%252BAppropria
tion%252Band%252BInnovation.pdf
Here’s some that are easier to read but still relevant
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-whitewashing-of-black-music-on-tiktok
https://www.varsity.co.uk/music/20097
A brief history of payola
https://www.vice.com/en/article/64y8y9/a-brief-history-of-american-payola
Musical Diegesis
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/diegetic-sound-and-non-diegetic-sound-whats-the-difference#3-examples-of-diegetic-sound\
Somewhere That’s Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIvpOIUqKKA
The Devil You know from Sideshow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP68t7uZXN4
Muppets Pictures in My Head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCkHajMn8Yo
PRODUCTION VALUE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQa0_YhmPp0
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