MUSIC140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington
2 Dec 2017
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The myth of sam philips: noticed that ~1950 black culture started to in uence middle class white culture. If i could nd a white person with the voice of a black person i could have a million dollars ==> elvis presley ! Dance-oriented: jazz-in uenced; primarily instrumental with feature vocalists ! Big bands had dominated music industry since mid 1930"s! Example of big bands: sentimental journey (brown/homer/green, 1944) performed by. Les brown and hist band of renown, featuring doris day! Note: the beatles invented the idea of the singer must be the same as the songwriter otherwise it isn"t a good interpretation! This song became a hit in the summer of 1945, since the war ended in may of 1945 (hence the title sentimental journey ! Band leaders such as benny goodman, count basie, duke ellington, tommy dorsey were the. Beginning of a return to the focus on vocalists. One of the most notable was frank sinatra.
