MUS 505 Lecture 5: Popular Music & Culture – Day 5
15 Feb 2019
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Solo women"s voices in country music: patsy montana, first major country hit by female soloist 1935, i want to be a cowboy"s. After the depression: from 1930-ww2, the economy began to recover, music business expanded, elaborated on conversation between northern and southern, dance music called swing was developed. The music industry: the swing craze was controlled and manufactured by ny based booking agencies like. Harlem"s cotton club: performers were exclusively aa, audiences were exclusively white, bandleaders played to stereotypes similar to minstrelsy, primitive dance routines, playing into imaginary white version of what black america is. It was broadcasted live: nobody cared what he did because he was new, gets to california and crowds were waiting for him (because of time change from ny to. In the mood, glenn miller (1939: form: 12 bar blues, verse-chorus, voices: full orchestra, texture: thick, not very varied, homophonic, dynamics: soft false endings seems like it will fade away, comes back with louder with crescendo.
