MUSIC 2II3 Lecture 4: Music 2ii3 Oct 2 lec 4.docx
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Ray charles (robinson) 1930 2004: born in albany georgia, blind at age 7, family was poor (he didn"t have great prospects as a blind, poor child, at school for blind music teacher took note for his extraordinary abilities (he had an amazing memory for music). Within the music industry he was given nickname genius in terms of his ability to manipulate recordings (and amazing hearing: 1952 signs with atlantic records (large, important, independent record company, 1st significant record company to sign and actively promote black artists (other black artists were recording on small labels) Most middle class whites were not racists (but they know that once shifting is done they might not be on top rung anymore they might be lower on economic ladder: so they didn"t address the root cause and instead looked for something much easier and blame that (blamed fact that white kids were listening to black culture, they blamed something prominent and easy to target =
