MUSIC140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Uncle Dave Macon, Crazy Blues, Music Industry
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Black music/rural southern white music was not recorded because: cultural chauvinism. Funded by businesses purchasing the opportunity to play commercials: still the case today, for the most part, some stations like cbc are not commercially funded. Jan. 1922 28 stations; december 1922 570 stations. Controlled by only a few (cid:862)net(cid:449)orks(cid:863) (cid:894)cb (cid:894)colu(cid:373)(cid:271)ia broad(cid:272)asti(cid:374)g yste(cid:373)(cid:895), nbc (cid:894)natio(cid:374)al. Radio connected everyone in the country able to more quickly spread popular songs: everyone was able to hear it at once - it no longer took years for popular music to spread across the country. Record player: expensive one-time purchase: only as good as the number of records you have, records were also extremely fragile, why buy records, you ha(cid:448)e to keep (cid:858)feedi(cid:374)g(cid:859) a re(cid:272)ord player. Records had bad quality, as did radio, so the combination of both gave very bad sound quality. Record industry concerned needs to find new markets: ma(cid:373)ie (cid:373)ith: (cid:862)crazy blues(cid:863) (1920)
