MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Allmusic, George Gershwin
25 May 2016
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Reviewer needs a name but on allmusic it"s okay since it"s well known. 4: about romantic life and not politics. True romance about marriage and having kids, love that lasts forever. Making a million versions of the same thing; easier to make music when you have a standard form of plugging in lyrics. Needed to keep it short to fit on 78 records. Lyrical content primarily about privacy and romance as cultural ideals. West side story, wizard of oz, the sound of music. Songs mixed high and low culture: popular songs performed by an orchestra. Ababc instead of aaba, but popular music is still in a fixed structure. Recording gets placed on a medium, buyers need technology to play it in order to listen to it. Reading questions (ch 5: music created by black musicians marketed to a black market, niche markets .
