MUS 4930 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Mitch Miller, Artists And Repertoire, Jerome Kern
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The pop culture wars was the battle between the american society of composers. Authors, and publishers and the broadcast music incorporated in the 1950s mainly about the music being broadcasted. The members of the american federation of musicians were devastated by the shift from live music to platter spinning on the radio. The afm prohibited musicians from appearing on radio or television or allowing disc jockeys to use tapes or transcriptions of them without compensation. Mitch miller, the paradigmatic a&r man, led the charge against rock n" roll. With plenty of reasons to resent rock n" roll, afm members and executives in the major record companies supported the declaration of war on the music by. Ascap; a powerful organization representing interests on broadway, on tin pan alley, and in. Ascap fought for the enforcement of copyright laws and the collection of royalties for its members.
