MUSI 1530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Golden Gate Quartet, Waylon Jennings, Social Realism
13 Sep 2017
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The music business: race records and hillbilly music. Introduction: many of the bestselling songs of the 1920s and 1930s were produced by the tin pan alley establishment, the music industry was more interested in guaranteeing profits than in encouraging musical diversity or experimentation. Musical diversification: record companies targeted new audiences between world war i and. World war ii (1918 40) and recorded music derived from the folk traditions of the american south: encouraged by the migration of millions of people from rural communities to cities such as new york, chicago, detroit, atlanta, and. Nashville in the years following world war i: these migrants constituted an audience for music that reflected their rural origins and for new, distinctively urban styles of music derived from the older oral traditions. Race records: in the 1920s, the record business began recording material closer to.
