MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - American Bandstand, Aldon Music, Alan Freed
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Music 2ii3 popular culture: post world war 2. Bill haley, pat boone, and the whitening of rhythm and blues (92-94) Adults in the room: brill building and aldon publishing (114-115) Producers in the brill building / phil spector and the wall of sound (130-135) Rock n roll independent labels paying bribes wasn"t new. Alan freed support independent rock n roll. Being an ideal example/model of how the music industry should be. Outcomes very different than alan freed relating to payola. Actually did more illegal things than alan freed. Because of his relationship american bandstand teens dancing to records/hit songs: singer would come out and lip-sync. Very popular weekly audience of 20 million viewers by the time it was approaching in between years. Key was kids will do exactly what their parents did or what their parents told them they should do.
