MUSIC140 Lecture Notes - Work Song, Art Music, Early Music
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If its not popular is considered art music or classical music. A fusion of rhythm n" blues (black culture) country and western (rural south of usa; white culture) and tin pan alley (urban northern white culture) All 3 are very well develop and separate by the end of the war. They are separate mostly due to racism. Marginalization based on economic standing also separated them. Southern states wanted to keep slavery / northern states didn"t = civil war. Popular music = dependant on the development of: Myth that elvis invented rock and roll; not the truth. Chuck berry* was doing the same things as elvis he never became as popular. North american slave trade 1619 1863. Differences in north and south america based on religion. African retentions less obvious in north american music. French and british also crontrols parts of north america. _rock and roll area (northern) was controlled by the brittish based on religion* catholic vs. protestan.