MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pop Punk, Mainstream Rock, Rockabilly
1 Apr 2018
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Musc*2150 unit 11: rock subversion: punk and the. Late 1970s music industry: a few big labels promoting only mainstream music. Radio almost aways played album-oriented rock (aor) Mtv would challenge the bis label"s domination over the traditional venues for music promotion. Identify important groups of the punk genre and discuss their musical contributions to the genre. Identify the main superstars of the 1980s and discuss their musical contributions to the pop genre: discuss the evolution of new wave. Shifts in the music industry: the advent of aor and. Late 1970s: the music industry was again concentrated among a few international labels. Record companies eliminated acts that were not sure money-makers. Labels usually signed older, proven groups to lengthy contracts, rather than take risks with new acts. Mainstream rock accounted for about 80% of all music sales at this time and was dubbed corporate rock by cynics.
