MUS 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Alan Freed, Multitrack Recording, Reverberation
Document Summary
The middle class: schlock rock: regional association with philadelphia, dick clark"s american bandstand, and independent labels: Chancellor, cameo/parkway, swan: teen idols frankie avalon, bobby rydell, fabian, and others competed to supplant the image of the poor white southern rockabilly star with a less threatening, clean-cut middle-class northern star. The official attack: ascap lawsuit against bmi, congressional hearings on the practice of payola. Payola: paying/bribing for the promotion of records, major repercussion: change in programming policies, program managers now went by the top 40 list (what was being played in juke boxes, the independence of the dj was severely curtailed. Postwar economic boom: sales of records rose steeply, records displaced sheet music as the #1 source of revenue. Family: baby boomers became teenagers, west side story: gangs in the city, ideal of the male-centric nuclear family shown on shows such as ozzie and harriet and father knows best, cars gave freedom to teenagers.
