MUS 114 Lecture 3: Section 3
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Being poor, black male is part of the blues experience. Music was inherently the product of ones social position. Emergence of the black middle class and how jazz was a product of that specific social-economic group. White people couldn"t imitate blues, but could imitate jazz. "[music] is the result of thought perfected at its most empirical, i. e. as attitude or stance" Jazz was a different experience of aas than blues, and so was more easily imitated by white people. As jazz got mainstream, only white musicians were paid to play in public and jazz lost its meaning. All music is the result of specific social circumstances. 12 bar blues structure influential in rock "n roll. Recording industry would have black person record a song, then a white person. Younger people liked black recordings more, but parents were against it. Elvis presley was successful because he fit that niche. His voice is what people what associate with aa performers and singers.
