MUS 225 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Payola, Fats Domino
Document Summary
Rock and roll played to new youth and teen culture. Catered to youth audiences in the same way rhythm and blues stations catered to black audiences. Identifying trends is an important part of the music business because it allowed stations to find the right kind of music that would get them advertising money. Charts are critical in doing this because charts will allow radio station programmers to identify what songs their target audience enjoys. Fats domino was one of the first early rockers to enjoy crossover hits and achieved an immense amount of success during his short career. Chuck berry didn"t write for black audience, he wrote for teenage audiences because he knew how to appeal to them. Chuck berry"s guitar style became more increasingly imitated in rock and roll as the genre developed. Little richard was the first very flamboyant rock and roll artists during the early years of the genre and he embraced the reputation.
