MUSC 2018 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Contemporary R&B, Maybelline, Debbie Reynolds
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Gender issue that goes up a lot, gender stereotypes are portrayed in different music. Generation captures audiences, provides musical history of generations beyond. Commercially successful billboards, tickets sold etc. Mass music involves many people, marketing, producers, Of the people this being my music etc artists, Korean war and vietnam war around the corner. Underlying tension, unease, of the americas being very concerned about what"s going on in the soviet union. Countries are segregated and people are divided. 1954 put an end to segregation in schools, segregation ruled. Provocative clothing was frowned upon. rock and roll would corrupt the younger generation. Chuck berry: maybelline 1958, great influence: rhythm and blues (r&b, verse, chorus form of 12 bar blues, put on a show that was central to rock and roll. Ruth brown 1953, mama, he treats your daughter mean : several big hits for atlantic record, known as the house, #1 on r&b chart that ruth built.