On Theme, Part One: Ernest Hogan's Success and Regret

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today the world agrees minstrel shows were horrific, weaponized stereotypes meant to dehumanize people. But not too long ago, minstrel shows and the related "coon songs" were some of the most popular music in all of the United States. In part one of this two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max join Katie Mitchell and Yves Jeffcoat, the creators of the On Theme podcast, to learn more about the complex relationship of creativity, capitalism, entertainment and race -- all found in the story of one brilliant composer: Ernest Hogan.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. The Welcome back to the show Ridiculous historians. Thank you as always so much for
0:30.7	tuning in. Who's that in the booth it's our super producer
0:33.8	mr max williams I am a super producer in the booth and my name is max william
0:39.6	maximos as I like to call you in our secret text threads that we only sent to each other late at night.
0:45.2	I know it's I know it's all about hot times. Our nighttime private times. I know it's all about hot tub.
0:49.9	Look we got to clarify okay we didn't meet in a hot tub per se, we met and then got into a hot tub.
0:55.0	Right, we were at an event, a weekend long event.
0:58.0	Yes, there were others.
1:00.0	Many others and many others got on the hot tub with us.
1:02.0	It was a collaboration and then the
1:05.4	next year we did a larger collaboration with more people.
1:08.0	Yes.
1:09.0	I doesn't want to hear the hot tub. You have guys who told me the hot, this is the fourth time and
1:12.3	now we're in a different
1:13.8	situation because it's not just Ben Noel and Max here we have company you guys we have
1:19.8	company this week which is why we're trying to make really good first impressions of the hot tub.
1:24.0	We just got to get a bigger hot tub.
1:26.0	So let us...
1:27.0	Is that a Jaws reference?
1:28.0	Yeah, we're going to...
1:29.0	Okay, go, go, go go.
1:30.0	Carry.
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