MUS111H1 Lecture Notes - Agrarian Society, Romanticism, Religious Music
Document Summary
Accessibility via mass production and mass media (emergence of popular music = emergence of mass media) Composers begin to make living by sale of sheet music mass mediation i. e. beck releases his new music as a book of sheet music as opposed to a recording. European mass-production and sale of pianos; salon culture: element of participation the music may have been mass produced and circulated, but you have to make it yourself at home. *industrial song production / publishing industry takes off in us. Centralization of music publishing in tin pan alley (nyc: many things begin to have their production centred in nyc. Peaks in years surrounding the civil war. Supplanted by vaudville (turn of the century) ny. White people in drag as african americans performing caricatures of african american culture and music. The role of the blackface performer (one who parodies african american cultural forms and life) becomes an established role that then african americans themselves can step into.
