MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Beach Boys, Ellie Greenwich, Frankie Avalon
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Pop top 10: 1955- 15% are rock and roll; 1959- 42% are rock and roll. Independent share of the music industry (the number of small independent music companies): 1955 independent record companies control 21% of the music industry/ 1959 independent record companies control 66% of the music industry. Why didn"t the major labels just sign rock and roll artists: division of labour, tpa worked in a way that was different from rock and roll. Chuck berry (r&r) wrote his own songs, play their own music. Big record companies don"t know how to deal with artists like this. Only big artists r&r to sign with a big company was elvis but he didn"t write his own songs. End of 1950s= the end of the golden age of rock and roll. Tip pan alleys division of labour was challenged for the rst time: different styles of music emerged during tpa but division of labour was constant.
