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“In baseball, there were established ‘Negro’ leagues for non-white players (while these leagues were predominantly African-American, there were also several Latin-Americans playing in the leagues, as well) through the early 1950s” (Keifer, Mitchell). [42] In her article, Andrea Eagleman talks about the history of the representation.
They are commonly found on black-and-white recordings of television programmes originally made in colour. Chroma dots were once regarded as undesirable picture noise, but recent advances in computer technology have allowed them to be used to reconstruct the original colour signal from black-and-white recordings, providing a means to re-colour ...
Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, on October 31, 1896 (some sources incorrectly state her birth year as 1900 [5] [1] [6]) as a result of the rape of her teenaged African-American mother, Louise Anderson (1881–1962), [1] by 17-year-old John Wesley (or Wesley John) Waters (1878–1901), [1] a pianist and family acquaintance from a middle-class African-American background.
In the early days of television, recording and editing shows on videotape was expensive and time-consuming. Due to lower costs and high expertise in live broadcasting, along with a lack of demand for recordings, archiving most TV content was deemed unnecessary and impractical.
In 1920, Smith created her "Crazy Blues"/"It's Right Here for You" recording, which sold 75,000 copies to a majority-black audience in the first month. Okeh did not anticipate these sales and attempted to recreate their success by recruiting more black blues singers. [11] Other big companies sought to profit from this new trend of race records.
Until the mid-1960s, record companies mixed and released most popular music in monophonic sound. From mid-1960s until the early 1970s, major recordings were commonly released in both mono and stereo. Recordings originally released only in mono have been rerendered and released in stereo using a variety of techniques from remixing to pseudostereo.
Web conferencing is used as an umbrella term for various types of online conferencing and collaborative services including webinars (web seminars), webcasts, and web meetings. Sometimes it may be used also in the more narrow sense of the peer-level web meeting context, in an attempt to disambiguate it from the other types known as collaborative ...
An original cast recording or OCR, as the name implies, features the voices of the show's original cast. A cast recording featuring the first cast to perform a musical in a particular venue is known, for example, as an "original Broadway cast recording" (OBCR) or an "original London cast recording" (OLCR).