MUSIC140 Lecture 6: Music 140 - Lecture 6
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Music 140 lecture 6: tonight, we will be living in the late 50s and early 60s. Last time, we finished up with chuck berry and the golden age of rock and roll (which was. Majors implicitly link race with the quality of the music. Payola hearings (bribery: the word payola went back much farther than rock n" roll, everyone was getting paid off! 1954: music industry makes million yearly; 1959: music industry makes million yearly. Pop top 10: 1955 15% are r"n"r / 1959 42% are r"n"r. Independent record companies" share of music industry: 21% in 1955, 66% in 1959. The birth of rock and roll coincides with emergence of civil rights movement. Rosa parks montgomery bus boycott. technological/socioeconomic factors: for about a year after this, no one from the black community used the buses. It was illegal for a black person to sit next to a white person when they crossed a state line.
