MUAR 392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Spanish Tinge, Blue Yodel, Eddy Arnold
20 Sep 2016
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Structure of the music industry in the us discriminated against popular musicians outside the mainstream. Radio dominated by national network shows which played a broad range of programs: music variety, dramas, comedies news, concerts, and so forth: music in this written by professionals employed in tpa, these songwriters also responsible for broadway musicals. Any composers of hillbilly and race music did nit the guidelines of the american society of composers and publishers excluded from in exposure via radio broadcast and from collecting revenue from their songs. In the 1930s, the broadcast music incorporated formed loose guidelines and small local radio stations began to play hillbilly music. Recording bans in 1942-43 increase radio networks interest in alternative sources for recording facilitated crossovers and cover tunes of hillbilly and race music. After the war, the number of independent record companies for this music grew exponentially. Indie"s surprise survival: small label"s ingenuity and skill pay off, bill simon.
