MUSC 2150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Jim Crow Laws, Musical Theatre, Thirty-Two-Bar Form
22 Nov 2016
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Identify and describe the major components of the music industry prior to 1955 and its broader historical and cultural context. Three prominent markets for popular music: mainstream pop, rhythm and blues, country and western. Dominated by music publishers, who sold sheet music as source of revenue. During jim crow laws separate but equal; many 50 year olds were alive during slavery and civil. Those in poverty started demanding living wage and 8-hour work day war between the working class and higher classes; can be seen in lower/middle class music. Most radios were targeted for middle class because they had disposable income to spend on advertisements. Discuss the development of a national audience in the united states. At first, no easy contact between parts of the country so each region had a distinct music type most music that people knew could be played or heard live.
