MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Crooner, Hear Music, Industrial Revolution
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Looking at trends in popular music and how they change, how they are influenced by technology, economics and demographics. #1 saturday september 30 @ 9am (1st 3 weeks) #2 saturday nov 4 @ 9am (non cumulative) Exam is cumulative (emphasis on 5 weeks after 2nd test) End of big bands era - big bands dominated music industry since mid 1930s. Sentimental journey les brown, one of most popular. Came out in the summer of 1945, right as many soldiers were coming home from war, just right for its time. At this point in music industry, most bands did not write their own music, no one rly cared. Controlled sounds and dancing was a big part of this - no roughness, soft sounds. The band leaders (eg. benny goodman, count basie, duke ellington, tommy dorsey) were the stars, singers were secondary. Bands began to get smaller in years following ww2 (mostly due to economics)
