{"id":1602,"date":"2005-12-13T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2005-12-13T06:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T12:40:00","slug":"musical-accompaniment-ragtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1602","title":{"rendered":"Musical Accompaniment: Ragtime"},"content":{"rendered":"

While working on my papers, I’ve been obsessively and repetitiously listening to Ragtime<\/a>, which Rice introduced me to. Or at least a few songs on it. I can’t tell if it’s trying to parody or represent the zeitgeist of the era. So much of it is like some sort of bizarre propaganda. Originally, I wasn’t sure if it was modern or not. Turns out it is (see article linked to above). <\/p>\n

But some of it is just, like, wow I’m torn between laughing at it and crying at it. For instance, from the song “Henry Ford”: “See, my people, well here’s my theory of what this country is moving towards: Every worker a cog in motion, well that’s the notion of Henry Ford” “A genuflection to Henry Ford. Hallelujah! Praise the maker… of the model-t” “Even people who ain’t too clever can learn to tighten a nut forever.” “mass production will sweep the nation. A simple notion, the world’s reward.” all sung in a celebratory air. The cognitive dissonance is simply overwhelming. This has to be tongue in cheek right? And yet, there are people today who really do feel that what’s good for general motors is good for america. Full stop. <\/p>\n

Don’t get me started on the condescending admiration in the song about the immigrants. Or the bit about Evelyn and her publicity. <\/p>\n

How this helps me concentrate on writing papers, I do not know, but, gift horses, mouths, you know the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While working on my papers, I’ve been obsessively and repetitiously listening to Ragtime, which Rice introduced me to. Or at least a few songs on it. I can’t tell if it’s trying to parody or represent the zeitgeist of the era. So much of it is like some sort of bizarre propaganda. Originally, I wasn’t … Continue reading “Musical Accompaniment: Ragtime”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}