The Sacred and Profane: Two Sides of 1920s Popular Music
Step back into the 1920s, a decade split by a stark cultural divide. This talk explores the friction between two distinct sonic worlds: the "sacred," sentimental popular music that reinforced white middle-class domesticity, and the "profane," gritty blues of Black America that voiced the raw, unfiltered realities of urban life. Discover how these competing soundscapes collided, challenged American moral boundaries, and laid the groundwork for a modern musical revolution.
