RTA 905 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bill Haley, Ida Red, Junior Parker
17 May 2016
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Youth have pocket money for leisure and items that marked their identity as part of teen culture. By 1958 youth spend billion per year and influence parents" purchases. Predetermined top 40 list still mainly based on bribes to industry. Major labels specialized mainly in crooners in tpa style: advent on microphone, still relatively the same style as earlier. Indie labels re-emerge (after depression decimation: many promote country and r&b from the south. But new cold war tensions: fears of atomic war widespread: people understood there was a possibility of war, specifically an atomic war, little education on atomic bombs, would do nuclear bomb drills. Mccarthy and co. blacklisted many artists (and others) who they accused of being communist, left-wing, anti-american . 1954 brown vs. board of education supreme court mandates end to schools" racial segregation. Term first used commercially by (white) dj alan freed (first in cleveland, later in nyc: noticed increase in white youth listening to r&b.
