MUSIC140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Okeh Records, Ralph Peer, Crazy Blues
27 Nov 2017
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The development of rock & roll: changes in technology, (cid:862)me(cid:272)ha(cid:374)i(cid:272)al rep(cid:396)odu(cid:272)tio(cid:374)(cid:863, 1877: edison invents the phonograph (gramophone). Early record industry controlled by the same people who controlled tpa. Middle-class whites: black music/rural southern white music not recorded because, generally not party of the tpa/sheet music industry-(cid:396)u(cid:396)al. Did(cid:374)"t thi(cid:374)k they"d make any money in this market; no profit: cultural chauvinism. Racism- culture of african-americans was seen as inferior, not worth the effort to record: legacy of the civil war hangs very heavy. Advertising could not be broadcaster around the country: first radio network to get itself organized was: nbc in 1928. Records would wear out, and could be easily be broken. Mamie smith who was african american: ***song: crazy blues (1920: all records that had black people were poor quality and racist, crazy blues is the first traditional recording including a black person.
