MUS 329 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ralph Peer, Blues Scale, Crazy Blues
24 Oct 2017
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From new orleans: performed in chicago, recorded in new york in 1917, odjb: livery stable blues. First jazz recording (that we know of and have: polyphonic texture: independent lines all happening simultaneously. Musicians are improvising: white musicians taking up an african american form and benefiting from it whilst african. Race and hillbilly music: not a natural way of music difference. Unnatural segregation on the part of the music industry. Race record are for the black community and hillbilly are for the white community: both names became seen as offensive and dropped around the 40s, eventually became blues, jazz, and country, recorded on cylinders and phonograph records. Ralph peer: was with a record label okeh records. Responsible for coming up with the categories race and hillbilly. In the early 20s he started to record the equivalent of ethnic music in the usa. Realized there was a market for this music if the music was familiar: made first hillbilly record.
