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- Luis Wirth
- -born in small jewish community in small german town -had to leave for education -became leading developer in sociology at university of Chicago -"urbanism as a way of life"
- W.C. Handy
- -"father of the blues" -born in Alabama -religion forbid him to play music, had to sneak off to play -joined a band in chicago
- Charley Patton
- -Born in Mississippi -played guitar -played music on the Dockery Plantation
- Robert Johnson
- -takes Patton's music and makes it well known -blues musician -played guitar
- Homer Plessy
- -1 great grandparent was black -1 drop of blood rule -was not subject to Jim Crow laws
- Winthrop Jordan
- -most important book on race: "White Over Black" -born in Mass. -professor at University of Mississippi
- William Julius Wilson
- -race was becoming less important -"declaring significance of Race" -Harvard Sociologist
- Thomas Skidmore
- -PH.D. for Harvard -leading interpreter of Brazil in U.S. "Black into White"
- Horace Cayton
- -grandson of first black senator -grad student at U. of chicago -studied race in chicago
- Mckinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters)
- -black guitarist -started with harmonica -recorded by john lomax -electrifies the blues -moved to chicago and records with chess records
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- -most famous economist of his time -wrote "Affluent Society" -appointed by JFK to be ambassador of India -went to berkely, then harvard -market concepts
- Jerry Wexler
- -Atlantic records -billboard magazine -began career writin about music -graduated high school at 15 -invented term "rhythm and blues"
- Don Robey
- -nightclub owner -owner of peacock records -discovered Big Mama Thorton
- Big Mama Thorton
- -Gospel singer from geogia becomes R&B singer -takes songs that weren't blues and sings them in a blues style
- Lejzor and Fiszel Czyz
- -brothers -jewish polish immigrants -blues -founded chess records
- Chuck Berry
- -born in St. Luis -black guitarist -records for chess records -went to reform school as a child -mixes country and jazz
- Sam Phillips
- -founder of sun records -D.J. -anyone can record for $1
- Colonel Tom Parker
- -born in Neatherlands -found Elvis Presley
- Michael Walzer
- -communitarianism -prof at princeton -PhD from Harvard -philosopher
- Nicolo Machiquelli
- -the prince -in it for himself
- John Calvin
- -the government of god -ran Janeva -government that follows the needs of the bible
- Kurt Lewin
- -born in germany -fled nazis -leadership climates (authoritarian, democratic, laissez-faire
- Barry Gordy
- -black man from Detroit -became a boxer -went into military -wrote songs in 1960's -recruits singers
- Jackie Wilson
- -singer -couldn't really write songs -danced while singing
- Marvelous Marv Johnson
- -born in detroit -sounded like Jackie Wilson -singer of R&B
- William "Smokey" Robinson
- -R&B and soul singer/song writer -motown -member of the miracles
- Jane Jacobs
- -wanted tp make cities better -community activist -went to toranto to work -wrote "the death and life of great America"
- Robert Moses
- -theory of urbanization -central focus should be automobiles -built highways
- Diana Ross
- -started singing in church -the supremes -berry gordy had writers write songs specific for her voice
- Max Weber
- -first figure of social sciences -explored knowledge like never before -"protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism" most important book
- Robert Bellah
- -secularization theory -leading sociologist in country -worked at berkely -wrote "hobies of the Heart"
- E Franklin Frazier
- -wrote sociological books -took a job at howard university -became very famous sociologist -segregation screwed him over
- Mahalia Jackson
- -spiritual/gospel music -distinct voice -grew up in Louisiana
- Stevland Judkins (stevie wonder)
- -born in saginaw, MI -born blind -played piano
- Lula Mae Hardaway
- -stevie wonder's mother -beaten as a child -very religious
- Marvin Gaye
- -father was crazy preacher -brought up where religion was everything -murdered by father
- Alfred Kinsey
- -credited for bringing sex into acedemics -psychologist -indiana University
- Michel Faucault
- -thought life was full of traps and puzzles -died of AIDS -sexuality is "performance"
- Gregory Pincus
- -Majored in agriculture at cornell -artificial insemination -prof at harvard invented birth control
- Paul Goodman
- -sociologist -novelist in 1950's -"growing up absurd" from NY
- James Brown
- -born in south Carolina during great depression -both parents abanded him -live on the streets -engaged in armed robery, went to reform school, got musical education
- Otis Redding
- -died in plane crash -soul singer -known for his voice
- Al Green
- -soul/gospel singer -born in arkansas -moved to grand rapids, MI
- Fernando Otiz
- -cuba-centric man "cuban counterpoint" -argues that cuba is crossroad for many things
- Michael Ignatieff
- -ethnocon vergence -canadian historian prof at cambridge and oxford
- David Hollinger
- -berkely prof -wrote "postethic america" -taught history
- Manu Dibango
- -born in cameroon -played saxophone -black man in france
- Donna Summer (LaDonna Gaines)
- -very christian household near bostin -thought she was going to be gospel singer -wanted to be on broadway
- Gloria Gaynor
- -jazz singer from New Jersey -wanted to bring artists back into disco
- Theodore Roszak
- -wrote "making of a counter culture" -a response to the dominant culture
- Herbert Marcuse
- -german american theorist -became spy moved to san diego
- Timothy Lenry
- -tried to develope a "happy pill" -people wanted a way to settle their brains -decided that we needed LSD
- Janis Joplin
- -university of texas where she listened to blues -buys into summer of love -beautiful voice
- Jimi hendrix
- -father was in military -born in seattle -lived with g-ma -learned guitar in Vancouver
- Jurgen Habermas
- -"the public sphere" -public access to stuff like newspapers
- Theda Skocpol
- -undergrad at MSU -"protecting soldiers and mothers" -collaboration least effective = creative writing most effective = movies
- Gladys Knight
- -distinctive voice -church camp -appeared on Ted Mack's amateur hour
- Jim Weatherly
- -born in rural mississippi -became quarterback for old miss -preferred writing music
- Cissy Houstin
- -became solo singer, then back up singer -soul and gospel music -born in new jersey
- Lewis Henry Morgan
- -born in NY -grew up next to Indian reservation -studied families-kinship,extended family, nuclear family
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- -sociologist -taught at harvard -elected senator of new york -the moynihan report = families of different races
- William Ryan
- -psychology degree from boston U -wrote "blaming the victim"
- C.L. Franklin
- -first raised in buffalo -moved to detroit -aretha franklin's father
- Aretha Franklin
- -raised in a new bethel baptist church -singer
- Ralph "Petey" Green
- -"talk to me" (movie) -father was hustler, mother was prostitute -parents abandoned him -fought in korean war -went to prison, learned to D.J.
- George Rude
- -english historian -dominant figure on how riots shape society -asked "what is a mob?" -wrote "revolutionary europe"
- Eric Hobsbawn
- -greatest living historian -great writer -wrote "primitive rebels"
- Eunice Wayman (Nina Simone)
- -stage name in nina simone -piano player prodigy -civil rights activist
- Herbert Aptheker
- -leftist -wanted citizens to be free-er and more equal -historian from columbian U -tried to show that people were ready to revolt
- Malvina Renolds
- -song writer on the left wing -from NY, went to cali -berkely educated -bad singing voice
- Utah Phillips
- -bum -lived and sang on the rails -born in Cleavland ohio
- Arlo Guthrie
- -woody's son -covered his father's songs -radicalism from the counter culture side
- Ani Difranco
- -Richous records -buffalo,NY -revolution has to involve women
- Leo Tolstoy
- -greatest novelist -spend more time looking at one another directly -religious
- Robert Owen
- -break away and form communities with people we can live and work with -small scale communities -indiana-tried to set up a utopia
- Garrett Hardin
- -evolutionary biologist -wanted ecology to be a serious field
- Kool Herc
- -from barbetos -used 2 turn tables at once -hosted parties
- Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddle)
- -made club music -members of group had nicknames
- Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
- -first real star of hip-hop -member of Public Enemy -art student
- Randolph Bourne
- -from NJ and came to NY -wrote for magazines -used the term "pluralism"
- Horace Kallen
- -pluralism is something that is wrong with us -we should share and blend with each other -university is best place for this -wrote "cosmopolitanism"
- Ronald Cohen
- -inconclusiveness-identity through music, language, food -exclusiveness-restrictions on marriage outside group
- Frank Sinatra
- -grew up in Hoboken -his mother did abortions -sang offbeat
- Nelson Riddle
- -Helped Sinatra -wrote music for Sinatra