MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: African-American Culture, Sweet Home Chicago, Country Blues
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Rural to urban population shift in the united states (1790-1900) Many outlets to promote and sell music (department stores, etc) Success of after the ball changed how people viewed the music industry; gave birth to tin pan. When you walked down the street and heard everyone trying to make music, sounded like everyone was (cid:873)banging pots and pans(cid:874). Music industry became more structured + organized idea originated that you can get rich by writing (cid:553)the one song(cid:554) After ppl began to see each other benefit from this, domino effect became a hub for music. Tpa is both a musical style and a place. Manhattan became center of professional music making. During 20s and 30s 21,000 publishers, 36,000 composers. Big idea: division of labour: composer, lyricist, publisher, publicity, performers. Advantage is that it gives consistent quality, hopefully high quality from practice. Sheet music dominates until transition to recordings in 1920s. The selling of the song is the most important part.
