LAWS 2908 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carter Family, Delta Blues, Strophic Form
11 Mar 2018
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Has a certain harmonic structure - 3 chord trick. Instrumentation is very different - almost pop orchestrated accompaniment. We know because there are a lot of pop conventions which carry over to today. Need a lot of money, and lots of trained professionals to produce the music; this is opposed to folk, wherein a lot of musicians didn"t write down music, and weren"t trained in reading/music theory. Often less complex lyrics, more emphasis on surface level themes - no moral ambiguity either. Tin pan alley ragtime and blues are quite similar, if more commercialized. The post-civil-war era in the u. s. was also marked by greatly increased urbanized and industrialization. By around 1900, we start to see the existence of a mass audience as we usually think of it, and musical genres began to appear which deliberately pitch themselves to this audience. Initially, the money came from changes to music publishing, not recording.
