MIAP-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Chet Atkins, Cadillac De Ville Series, Saxophone
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Rock n roll like tin pan alley, hillbilly music or rythm and blues was introduced as a commercial and marketing term. Rock and roll is associated with songs that have sexual implications. The new audience was dominated by the baby boomers. Dj -probably first to use the term rock n roll for commercial purposes. Young white kids were listening to and requesting the rhythm and blues records he played on his moondog show in cleveland. Promoted concert tours featuring black artists, playing to a young, racially mixed audience. Freed promoted african american musicians despite resistance to racial integration. In the early 1960s freed was prosecuted for accepting payola. Refers to the practice of recording a song that has previously been recorded by another artist or group. The most notorious examples involved white performers covering the work of african american recording artists. Courts stated that musical arrangements were not copyrighted property and therefore not under legal protection.
