The late 1920s and 1930s were a time when many americans endured the humiliation of rampant racism as well as crushing poverty. yet most mainstream popular music (exemplified by the tin pan alley style) avoided these issues and focused instead on escapist themes of privacy and romance. why might this have been the case? do you feel that contemporary popular music also focuses on escapist themes like the 1920s and 1930s or do you feel that it tackles the relevant issues of the day? do you feel that popular music works best as an escape from the problems of the world or as a forum to explore and engage such issues? be as specific as possible in citing examples.

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romare bearden worked with many types of media which includes cartoons, oils and collages. basically, the use of collage him create emotionally affecting images hence back then he had struggled with his two artistic sides as a student of literature and of artistic traditions and being a black human being which involves very real experiences, fugrative and concrete.thus through the use of collage expressed or showed how his art/work became more representational and more overtly socially concious. he showed how not only were african-american rights moving forward but so was his socially concious art and by then his works became generally considered as best works in 1964.