MUSI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Comic Opera, Folk Rock, Polyvinyl Chloride
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Class 5: feb. 7: 3 moments in western popular music. Industry developed/controlled by commercialism of bourgeois class. (in urban areas) most musical production is in the hands of or is mediated by commercial music publishers, concert organizers and promoters, theatre and public house managers. By mid-1850s, a non-homogenous musical field was clearly dominated by bourgeois synthesis. Light opera, brass bands, mass choirs, domestic song, broads songs, music hall. Street music, political music, avant-garde either marginalized or assimilated into commercial products. 1980s: large and well-well-capitalized corporations become more important/prominent. American cultural products increasingly compete/displace local and national practices and music becomes international/global business. Beginnings of increasingly corporate domination (coexisted with local initiatives, practices, and businesses) Technological changes, such as recording/dissemination, leads to increased role of young working-class as creators of music. Corporations quickly assert control over rock production but the indie artists served essential roles: origins and development of rock "n" roll, rock and roll, and just rock .
