Curtis Brown
Black Swan Records Assignment
Exercise 1
African Americans in the Entertainment Business
What did it mean for an African American to be a professional entertainer in the first two decades of the twentieth century?
It seems that both songs seemed to talk of the hardships endured by African Americans during the early 20th century but the Text: Bert Williams, "The Comic Side of Trouble" (1918) seems to talk of the singer be so disillusioned by what he was forced to sing day after day like the music he had sung was more like a punishment. It can almost be said the songs catered…
