Ella Fitzgerald's Big Experiment

In Ella Fitzgerald's mission lies an experiment a social science study that I believe she was a data point in. One of the most important overlooked experiments of the 20th century These days we're all used to thinking of ourselves as part of social networks chains of influence linking us all together. This episode is about where those ideas came from We'll come back to Fitzgerald. I promise but first I want you to meet the experimenter In the 19 teens in Ocean Away in Austria there was a young and rather mysterious medical student named Jacob Levy Moreno. He'd stried around campus in a green peasant's cloak Hatless with a long flowing beard when he was a baby or so the story goes.