MUSIC 2II3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Thirty-Two-Bar Form, Gorn, Mary Ford
6 Jun 2016
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Building a national audience for music and entertainment. Tin pan alley became a style for american popular music: tin pan alley songs use sectional verse-chorus . Verse is an introduction that sets the song. 32 measure aaba form (aaba becomes popular in rock music: the basic unit of trade of rock would be the specific recorded performance in formats ranging from records to tapes to mp3. Best way to promote a song during 1930s-1940s was to get it on the radio. Might influence the sale of recorded version versus sheet music. Nbc used telephone lines to link 69 stations across. Focus was on pairing artists with songs appropriate for radio shows: network radio programming: of the most successful part of the ear was the comedy. Amos n" andy uses racial stereotypes: net work radio stretched from coast to coast creating a national popular culture in which music played a central role.
