MUSI 1003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mariachi, Polka, Music Of Africa
Document Summary
Music and technology: technology has helped shape popular music and spread it, printed sheet music in the nineteenth century, rise of the phonograph record, network radio, sound film in the 20s, digital recording, computerized sampling. It is a means of promoting contemporary musicians and introducing young people to rock music of decades past. Center: geographically distinct centers (new york, los angeles, nashville). Have power, capital, and control over mass media. European american music: ballad: verses tell a story, often about a historical event or tragedy. Originally passed down through oral tradition, eventually written down and circulated: pleasure gardens: most important source of public entertainment in england between 1650 and 1850. Forerunner of today"s theme parks, one of the main venues for the dissemination of printed songs by professional composers. The first pleasure garden in america opened in the 1760s in new york: the english ballad opera traditions: drew on ballads.
