MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bill Haley, Disc Jockey, Alan Freed
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The second world war was good economically for the united states. No fighting happened in north america in ww2, all in europe. The economic strength allowed for families to have a good income, it allowed for leisure time and in that leisure time it allowed for people to consume products of popular culture like popular music. A youth culture with time and money. Cross over of black music into white culture. Considerable amount of population migration late in the 1940"s and into the 1950"s. Young kids with time and money are starting to listen to records that they"ve never listened to before. There starts to be a demand both on radio stations for the playing of this kind of music and also for the record industry to be selling this kind of music now to a crossover or white audience. Alan freed disk jockey in cleveland, he started a radio show that he called.
