MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Crew-Cuts, Moral Panic
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Music 2ii3 lecture 08 sept 28th, 2015. Moral panic created when white middle class teenagers tuned into black appeal radio. Redo and make cover versions of black music to make it more acceptable to the white population. Cover versions landed well with white audiences. The chords: june 1954 / cat records (original) Vocables: some sort of sound you held a note on. The crew cuts (canadians): july 1954 / mercury records (all white vocal group released their cover of this song on a major record label) There are no solos and the whole aaba structure is repeated, and odd bar numbers (absolutely deliberate) Aaba dominant structural form in music back then. The fact that it has less interlude makes me more familiar with middle class housewives. Cover versions: simplify formal structures and make them more apparent (clearer). Any sense of intimacy is pushed out in the crew cuts version. Voice distorted use of lower octave in.
