The Rise and Fall of the Indies and R

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The Rise and Fall of the Indies and RR

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The Rise of the Indies

• Chess records and Chicago Blues
• Polish Immigrants and African Americans
• Marketing strategies
• Chuck Berry and the White Audience
• Sun records and Memphis
• Sam Phillips and transracial fusion
• Rockabilly Music
• Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis
• Atlantic Records and Race Music
• Rhythm and Blues vs. Gospel
• Jazz

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The Coma of Rock and Roll

• Payola
• Alan Freed vs. Dick Clark
• Standard practice (songpluggers)
• Deaths and Scandals
• Little Richard and religion
• Jerry Lee and kissing cousin
• Buddy Holley. Ritchie Valens
• Sweetening
• Little Richard and Pat Boone

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Tin Pan Alley to Brill Building

• NYC and the Brill Building
• Taking Popular music back from the Indies
• Doo Wop
• From urban Black street corners to the studio
• Lieber and Stoller,
• Classically trained
• Sweetening through arrangements and orchestration
• Elvis

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Brill Building

• Goffen and King
• Followed Lieber and Stoller
• Phil Spector
• Genius or Madman
• Wall of Sound
• Role of Producer over Performer
• Emergence of Girl Groups
• Target the White audiences

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Regional Music and California

• The 1950s meet the Beaver
• Migration and Growth in CA
• Climate
• Impact of the WW II
• Technology
• Prosperity and Leisure Time
• Disposable Income
• Hollywood and Entertainment Industry

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Surfing Subculture

• Subculture differentiated from the larger group
• Surfers
• Language
• Clothing
• Music
• Lifestyle

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Surfers and Music

• Dick Dale
• Sounds of the Surf
• Musical Influences
• Beach Boys
• Hollywood and Surf Music?
• Musical influences
• Brian Wilson
• Producer/performer/writer

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Early 60s and Changes in the Popular Music
Industry

• The End of Regional Hits
• Impacts of Television and Radio
• Dick Clarks American Bandstand
• East Coast vs. West Coast
• Tin Pan Alley/ Brill Building
• Changes in the Division of labor
• Artist as Writer as Producer etc.
• What about Folk Music?