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Post War Era

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Popular Music and Diversity in American Society (MUSI 1003)

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Music Business in the Postwar Era

(1946-54)

Teenagers ($)

● Demand for new music ($) ● Greater interest in Southern styles ($)

New Technologies Improved Recording And distribution ($)

● Magnetic tape ● Record formats (“Battle of the Speeds”) ○ 1948:12-inch disc(331/3rpm) ○ 1949:7-inch disc(45rpm) ● FM Radio ○ Local trends in popular music; DJs

Southern Music in the Postwar Era

● Great Migration ○ Rural South → northern cities ● Southern music had wider audience ● Billboard Magazine(late-1940s) ○ Race Record: rhythm and blues ○ Hillbilly records: country and western ● Independent Record Labels ● Radio

R&B: Jump Blues

● First commercially- successful category of R&B ● Small dance bands; party music ● Humorous lyrics; wild stage performances ● “Choo Choo Ch’ Boogie” (1946) ○ Decca Records ○ Crossover hit: R&B (1) and Pop (7) charts

R&B: Chicago Electric Blues

● Chicago an important destination in Post-War era

● Country blues→new urban blues tradition ● “Delta blues” acoustic guitar→ electric guitar ○ Robert Johnson ■ Crossroad blues ■ 1937 ● Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) (1915–83) ● “Hoochie Coochie Man” (1954)

“Big Mama” Thornton (1926–84)

● Born in Alabama ○ Willie Mae Thornton ○ Daughter of a Baptist minister ● Performed in black vaudeville shows ○ Minstrel shows ● Black nightclubs in Houston and Los Angeles ● “You ain’t nothing but a hound dog” ○ 1952

Ruth Brown (1928 2006)‒

● “Miss Rhythm” ● Born in Virginia ○ sang in father’s church choir ● Professional at 16 years old ● Signed With independent label Atlantic Records at 21 ● Distinctive,gospel singing style ● Influenced female soul musicians ● “Mama He treats Your Daughter Mean” ○ 1953

Country and Western

● Country crooners had mainstream appeal ○ Patti Page, “Tennessee Waltz” ○ (1950; she sings lead and harmony) ● Honky-tonk: ○ refers to a kind of roadside bar in the South

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Post War Era

Course: Popular Music and Diversity in American Society (MUSI 1003)

36 Documents
Students shared 36 documents in this course

University: University of Connecticut

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Music Business in the Postwar Era
(1946-54)
Teenagers($)
● Demand for new music ($)
● Greater interest in Southern styles ($)
New Technologies Improved Recording And distribution ($)
● Magnetic tape
● Record formats (“Battle of the Speeds”)
○ 1948:12-inch disc(331/3rpm)
○ 1949:7-inch disc(45rpm)
● FM Radio
○ Local trends in popular music; DJs
Southern Music in the Postwar Era
● Great Migration
○ Rural South→northern cities
● Southern music had wider audience
●BillboardMagazine(late-1940s)
○ Race Record: rhythm and blues
○ Hillbilly records: country and western
● Independent Record Labels
● Radio
R&B: Jump Blues
●First commercially- successful category of R&B
●Small dance bands; party music
●Humorous lyrics; wild stage performances
● “Choo Choo Ch’ Boogie” (1946)
○Decca Records
○Crossover hit: R&B (1) and Pop (7) charts
R&B: Chicago Electric Blues
● Chicago an important destination in Post-War era

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