MUSC 2150 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 2: Hobo, Future Rock, Leonard Chess
27 Feb 2018
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Building a national audience for music and entertainment. The rise of the radio networks in the 1920s (how did they work?: an effective way of reaching large audience was to link a number of local and regional stations together to form a network. Programming could be run from one central location. Most music was performed live on the air: once radio came on the scene, a song could become popular almost overnight. Sheet music publishers and professional songwriters: music publishing was a major in uence on popular-music business. Monday, september 19, 2016: sheet music was a principle way to sell music in the early 20th century, tin pan alley: concentrated area of nyc where sheet music was sold. Publishers had to convince singers to sing their songs so that it would get heard on radio. As well radio producers were involved in these discussion to play what the public wanted to hear.
