MUSI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Electronic Drum, Reverberation, House Music
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R&b was a term used to talk about all blues influenced music. Term rock n roll went through several evolution. Terms were beginning to be used in sexual context. Once it became a genre, the term became much more frequently used. Rock and roll is river of music that has a lot of streams in it. Freed is often given credit for coining the term, even though that is not accurate, only helped to popularize it. Tensions in industry in the end of the 50"s. Bmi was accused of having too much power in musical media and curtailing public taste. Record companies pay dj"s to play songs or play them more frequently. Rocks popularity had to have political or commercial motivation. People argued the music wasn"t good enough to be popular on its own. New variety of rock n roll in 50"s, called teen pop. Tried to remove the more riske elements of rock n roll.