MUSIC140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington
27 Nov 2017
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Influence of african-american culture on middle-class white people. Dorsey, **frank sinatra: big band had hit peak and is by now falling out of fashion, rise of vocalists now hitting centre of arc ***song (cid:858)i(cid:859)(cid:448)e got a (cid:272)rush o(cid:374) you(cid:859) fra(cid:374)k. If music was intended for black audience, you were considered a race artist: hillbilly: origins in poor, white, rural- is now migrating to urban areas. The beginnings of history for the united states: by the early 1800s, there are more and more people trying to make a living as songwriters; the music industry is starting to take shape, the victorian ballad- In western culture, influenced by britain, 1800s are victoria era// queen. Victoria: an umbrella term for songs found in the 1800s. Industrial revolution: marks the moment where people began to move out of rural areas and began to move into urban areas for jobs and money, rise of the factories, rural- probably poor.
