MUSC 2150 Lecture 4: Music Units 4-7
3 Nov 2016
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Unit 04: rock and roll evolves: the rise of the producer. Covers the move of rock and roll into mainstream culture through television, especially through american bandstand, a very popular tv show. By the end of the 1950s, the major labels have gained control of the rock and roll genre and have imposed on it the style of production that had served the tin pan alley era. This style becomes known as the brill building style of music production, which considers singers interchangeable and places the primary responsibility for a song"s success on the producer. Rock and roll becomes widely popular, another form of underground music, the first wave of folk revivalists, protests the racial, economic, gender, and political inequalities of. This wave of artists inspires the rise of a more commercially-oriented folk music. American bandstand and the rise of a youth dance culture. Reading: 111-118 and go to the backstage pass page of the publisher"s website and read.
