MUSC 171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Second British Invasion, Flugelhorn, Canadian Content
28 Apr 2016
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Song 35: nighttrain by public enemy 1991 (genre: rap) If james brown"s train unified, with pe critiquing when society lumps african. Americans together: self criticism to blacks who engage in violence, train subway. Musical genres were blurred had a hard time figuring how to sell records to people. Blank vcr tapes changed to video recording tapes (vhs) allows people to record and time shift. Controversial ruling that insists that canadian broadcasters devote a certain percent of air time to canadian content. 2 mapl conditions: m (music) composed by canadian, a (artist) performer id canadian, p (production) recorded in canada, l (lyrics) by a canadian. Has given some advantages to canadian artists. Music videos were simply called promo clips . Mtv had a lack of black artists. President of mtv, robert pittman, accused of being racist and favouring white artists, but he just thought the white kids were more into rock music etc. which was white music.
