MIAP-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pete Seeger, Latin Dance, Tempo Rubato
Document Summary
The entertainment industry grew rapidly after the war. Record companies began for the first time to target young people, many of whom had more pocket money to spend on records than ever before. Many of the hit records of the late 1940s and early 1950s were romantic songs, performed by crooners with orchestral string backing. The idea of top 40 radio programming in the early 1950s by todd storz, a dj in omaha. Record companies paid djs to put their records into heavy rotation, a practice called payola. The market for black music was supported by a new generation of independent record labels. Popular music and technology in the postwar era. Magnetic tape recording, developed by the germans and the japanese during the 1930s, offered a number of advantages over the established means of recording music. Better able to capture the full range of musical sounds. The greatest innovator in this field was the guitarist and inventor les paul (1915-2009)
