jazz pop and rock
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- tin pan alley- artist? 1885-1915
- berlin, ohan dresser, von, herbert
- tin pan alley artist 2nd generation? 1915-1935
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berlin, kern. arlen, rodgers, gershwin, porter, ellington
represented a jewish american tradition - tin pan alley artist 3rd generation? 1935
- gershwin dies but focus is on performers not the composer
- tin pan alley started where?
- NYC, and in musicals, movies example vaudville
- expain TPA
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o Restrained emotional content, idealized, very syrupy, lyrical
o Crooning, sweet, homogenous sound ideal
o Heavy European American influence
o “Let’s dance cheek to cheek†vibe vs shakin’ it - father of country
- jimmie rodgers
- other country wetern artist
- carter family, johnny cash, hank williams, kitty wells, bill monroe, bluegrass boys
- country western people type?
- considered poor, rural southerners as their own minority group
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country western
Nature of music? -
o Nasal twang
o Emotional detachment from song, telling a story
o Preference for string instruments
o Music to barn dance to, has ostinato
o Fundamental in its harmony and structure
o Descant singing - center stage for CW when it moves north
- Grand ol' Oprey
- black popular music/ rhythm and blues before 1955 type?
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party music
African American performance style - black popular music/ rhythm and blues before 1955 format?
- AABA
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target audience? of
black popular music/ rhythm and blues before 1955 - black target audience
- showboat
- musical pivital to modern music
- falsetto
- man who sings high notes
- smokey robinson
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high note singer
chicks dig it
unrestrained emotional content - anglo american ballad
- song that tells a story
- yodel
- communication from hilltop to hilltop
- country had drop beats becuase
- they weren't schooled
- chuck berry
- AA
- bill haley
- EA
- Jerry lee lewis
- EA
- Carl Perkins
- EA
- Little richard
- AA
- fats domino
- AA
- buddy holly
- EA
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Golden age of rock n roll
WWII brought changes to U.S. -
blacks could die for america but still no civil rights
People went to different parts of the country and took music with them
women-were sheltered, not anymore
worked in factories
could now maintain reputations -
Golden age of R&R
technology - transiter radio
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golden age of R&R
suffering infleunces music - holacost-people dying all over
- alan freed
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radio jockey played both races on mainstream radio
in cleveland-hall of fame is there - buddy holly is from where
- west texas
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75% blues
25% country
gives you what - Rock and Roll
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elvis is poster child for what
who was he before -
rock and roll
a trucker - who signed elvis
- sun records
- jerry lee lewis marries who
- his 13 year old cousin
- elvis was sent where?
- The army sent elvis to Germany
- chuck berry violated what law
- took a girl accross state lines
- lil richard sees what and does what?
- he sees spunik and retires to church music
- pat boone
-
teen idol
covered many R&B songs - brill building?
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created song writing team
wrote many R&R songs for such artist like beach boys - ricky nelson
- TV star
- dick clark
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host of the tv show american bandstand
promoted many bands- beach boys - black commericalism
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detroit
motown records
similar to white commericalism - tin pan alley slows when?
- 1950
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black commericalism
smokey robinson wrote lryics that were____? -
innocent
I want to hold you
before music was about getting in bed with your girl - BC more about what
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power than racism
music that sounds good in cheap car radios
orchastras now fine with blacks - martha and the van dellas
- motown band
- berry gordy
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motown pioneer, worked in a car factory
maintained the power of music in motown
great ears for knowing hit songs - berry gordy was a father figure
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the artist had to find themsleves in motown
berry would get them started, give them shelter and feed them
then like parents you have to leave and become who you are - prince of motown
- marvin gaye- sang whats going on
- diana ross
- queen of motown
- motown doesn't make artists good
- motown puts the spotlight on the artists
- who left their legacy in motown for hollywood
- berry gordy
- stevie wonder plays
-
hermonica
and is a child prodigy - micheal jackson
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goes to motown
fed up with being told how to sing
called berry gordy and complained - golen age
- represented optimism in black communities
- 1964
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beetles arrive in U.S. from liver pool
had been working together mid 50's - notes about beetles
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appearence on the ed sullivan show
write their own songs
AABA format
A sections are blues - british band dominating in american music industry
- the beetles
- played with no guitar, no drums... but used chello singing a love ballad, string cortette
- the beetles
- were wolves in sheep clothing
- the beetles
- george martin
- helped beetles produce music
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party or serious
1950's
1960's -
1950's-party
1960's-serious - james brown
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great social and business leader
soul music
food as a sex metaphor
came from the south - best soul ballad artist
- aretha franklin
- british rock artists came from?
- british art schools
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self taught
from seattle
wild child
feedback
scultured noise
pushes R&R language
abstract music - jimi hindrex
- rock and roll degrades women
- janis joplin
- chuck berry from
- st. louis