Butt Out, Baby‪!‬ Butt Out, Baby!

Tito tap dances while Johnny and Penny do the mambo. 
+ Famous tap dancer, Honi Coles+ The history of tap and minstrelsy+ Shirley Temple (drink and person)+ Why some dance is authorized at Kellerman's and some is not + The history of Latin American dance in American movies+ Is Dirty Dancing kinda gay?
Works used and mentioned:
How to Make a Shirley Temple
Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype
PBS: Blackface Minstrelsy 
Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert C. Toll





What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing by Brian Seibert
NY Times: HONI COLES: RECALLING 50 YEARS OF TAP
Honi Coles does Bill Robinson, 1979
Honi Coles with Chuck Green and Will Gaines 1983
It Happened in the Catskills: An Oral History in the Words of Busboys, Bellhops, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians, Agents, and Others Who Lived It edited by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer
Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader edited by Julie Malnig
Cuban Pete from The Mask 
Cuban Pete by Louis Armstrong
Blog post about Joseph Norman 
El Manisero performed by Machin
Stop-motion creepy (or charming??) monkey 
Time Magazine: Sugar-Bowl Migrants
Readings on West Side story 
Carina's NY Times article on West Side Story
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CARINA DEL VALLE SCHORSKE - website 
ADDIE TSAI - website 
SONJA THOMAS - Colby College faculty page 
 
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Fashion commentary by visual artist, Christy Kunitzky
Music by Claire Whitehead aka Claire Maeve aka Midswim 

At the evening dance in the Kellerman's "playhouse," Baby and Neil show off their politics. 
+ High status US colleges + Peace Corps in the 60s + More on Bull Conner in Birmingham+ The white Freedom Riders 
Works used and mentioned:
Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Behind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies and Unsung White Allies of Birmingham’s Civil Rights Days by TK Thorne 
What You Can Do for Your Country: An Oral History of the Peace Corps by Karen SchwarzAll You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s by Elizabeth Cobbs HoffmanA Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps directed by Alana DeJoseph
The Poison and the Tomb: One family's journey to their contaminated home by Kim Wall, Coleen Jose, and Jan Hendrik Hinzel
BEING BETTER AMERICANS AND DOING IT FOR THEM: THE PEACE CORPS IN MICRONESIA by Craig J. Severance
LA Times: How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster by Susanne Rust 
FBI Knew Policeman Was Leak to Klan on Freedom Riders by Paul Magnusson
1946 Bikini Atoll MGM film
1967 Peace Corps ad 
 
For your scene 6 pt 1 thoughts: ellie@buttoutbaby.com
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Over a year ago my friend Andrew interviewed me for his top-notch podcast, Goodest Notes. For various reasons it got lost to the sands of time until now! Listen for:
+ The story of my use of fanfic in a dark time + Tips I heard on a writing podcast years ago and have never forgot+ Writing stereotypes and unpacking the note "you don't need to show your work"+ Hear me fumble through questions I hadn't prepared answers for! 
Goodest Notes podcast 
Goodest Notes was created by Andrew Shenkman and Drew Thomas. This episode was edited by moi. ellie@buttoutbaby.com
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Debrief episodes are for listener feedback on the previous scene and the hows and whys of making a podcast like this. In this episode:
Finding Nice Jewish Boy media icons in strange places 
How to deal with plosives in your recordings 
A novel recommendation 
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Music by Claire Whitehead

At dinnertime, Lisa and Baby are presented with Bachelor number 1 and 2. Featuring Mari Cohen of Jewish Currents. 
+ Learning about the terms Jewish American Princess and Nice Jewish Boy + The politics of "Jewish continuity" + The parental scolding line, "There are starving children in..."+ My dislike of white tablecloths
Mari and Jewish Currents works mentioned:One the Nose podcast, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Jewish Matchmaking"Mari's review of the Lox Club dating app
For your scene 5 thoughts: ellie@buttoutbaby.com
Follow the show on InstagramFashion commentary (usually) by visual artist, Christy Kunitzky
Music by Claire Whitehead aka Claire Maeve aka Midswim 
 

Debrief episodes are for listener feedback on the previous scene and the hows and whys of making a podcast like this. In this episode:
BAD BOYS like Johnny, Han Solo, John Bender from Breakfast Club, Derek from Save the Last Dance
What "college boy" means.
How to promote (or not) an indie podcast
Podcast The Newsletter
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Music by Claire Whitehead