MUH-2019 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Madonna (Entertainer), Eddie Van Halen, Katy Perry
Document Summary
Music technology in the 1980"s. Sale of video games rise. Electronic instruments are skyrocketed: synth, drum machine, sequencers. Cable network to one topic. Mtv - early 80"s: defining fixture of the decade. 2 original plans: record labels pay to play videos. Get money: others was experiment with film and music making. Radio labels paid mtv. Video killed the radio star : mtv was taking away from the radio. First video to ever play on mtv. Target under 25 demorgraphic. Visual acts: dance music, album music. White artists more than black: changes quickly. Starts new wave and british artists at first. Known as the king of pop. Moat commercially successful performers. Jackson 5 left motown 1975. 1979 he went off by himself: heavy disco. 1987 bad: 5 #1 singles. Produced by quincy jones. Only album to do this until katy perry. Crossed genre lines: out of the water. No longer cross over it just appealed to everyone. Seven top 10 singles.
