MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chubby Checker, American Bandstand, Hank Ballard
12 Nov 2018
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Rock and roll evolves: the rise of the producer. Unit 4 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 so well. 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. While 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 american society. In turn, this wave of artists inspires the rise of a more commercially-oriented folk music. American bandstand and the rise of a youth dance culture.
