MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: African-American Music, Crazy Blues, Race Record
4 Oct 2016
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Part 1: blues and country 20"s and 30"s. The inclusion of blues and country music in the popular music industries came about largely from the desire to cultivate secondary markets and thus increase profits. The focus was squarely oriented towards the agricultural heartland that was the. Should there be any doubt as to the degree of marginalization involved, the labels used between the 1920s and 1940s are a good indication. Hillbilly music/records: this label to the music we call today country and western and country folk, marketed to a southern white consumer base. This music was not a static transplantation of regional idioms, but rather an evolving practice that was linked to american urbanization. Another is a recurring trend in which independent labels identify new artists and markets, which are then taken on by major labels. The practice of discovering, recording and selling african american music to. African american audiences, and by extension race records, beings in the 20"s.
