MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Bessie Smith
20 May 2016
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Tin pan alley= formulaic songs, wanted to make music that would sell to many people (aka needs to be relatively simple and straightforward/sheet music) Urban migration following wwii: this population wanted music that reflected their rural origins. Economic conditions forced the expansion into these secondary markets. Race (performances by blacks marketed to blacks) and hillbilly (performances by whites marketed to whites): southern musics from folk traditions that blended older rural styles with national popular culture. Both disseminated by radio, electric recording, and sound film. Not until 1920"s was recording anything close to african american folk tradition acceptable. Mamie smith (1883-1946)- brought to the attention of the ok record company, replaced sophie. Tucker in a recording session, crazy blues and it"s right here for you (ok records made no effort to promote these records but they still became widely popular and realized they might have a second market available) Race records - term by ralph peer of okeh records.
