MUSIC140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Good Music, Early Music, Protestantism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Music
• Course: MUSIC140
• Professor: Simon Wood

Document Summary

There is no such thing as bad music except celine dion. There also is no such thing as good music. It all depends on your judgment and your set of values. This course is about how music reflects your world. The one thing to understanding western popular music is the intersecting of black and white culture. In memphis tennessee, sam phillips owned sun records. He said, if could find a white man who could sing a like a black man, i could make a million dollars. It is a wonderful story, it represent how the music industry works. Elvis was born because of all the music he was living to. If we want to know how western popular music started, we have to go hundreds of years back. North american slave trade 1619 1863. For the first time, the black and whites were brought together. Differences in north and south american based on religion.