MUS 505 Lecture 3: MUS505 Lecture 3 Lab 3
19 Feb 2016
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World war i reinforced american influence overseas. New technologies cars, telephones, radio, cinema, phonographs, and tabloid newspapers. Vaudeville replaced by broadcasts, movies, and broadway (which featured the songs of tin pan alley). Licensing and copyright experiences are set up to control the flow of profits for popular music. Most important is ascap (american society of composers, Venues require a license to play live or recorded music. African americans moving from the south to the north. Reasons for migration was work prospects, and deep racism in the south. Shift from a rural to an urban area. In the north there was industrialization, manufacturing, etc. where they were bringing their music. 1919 first song becomes a hit on recording before it was releases as sheet music. 1920 first 2 million record seller: paul whitman with whispering . Record companies originally focused on selling phonographs as furniture, switched to focus on music in the early 1920s.
