MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Montgomery Bus Boycott, Lunch Counter, Sam Phillips
28 Oct 2016
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1954 million; 1959 million: pop top 10: 1955 15% are r"n"r/1959 42% are r"n"r. Rock and roll becoming more and more popular and major labels couldn"t figure out how to make it work. Record companies were primarily interested in one thing: making money: elvis presley one of the few guys who fixed the division of labour, chuck berry did not fit into major label of division of labour. Birth of rock and roll coincides with emergence of civil rights movement: may 1954. May 1954: this is the time right when sam philips phones elvis presley, Presley"s first recordings happen a few weeks later (not a coincidence) Changes that empowered african american"s to start civil rights movement. Same group causes: segregated schools were unconstitutional and schools must be integrated, people fought this with extraordinary venom. Peacefully protesting un-just laws by breaking them (simply calling.
