Segregating Sound

One thing I found very interesting was the thought that the commercial recording industry controls who listens to the music being broadcasted as well as what type of music musicians have to sing in order to be broadcasted. I feel that this could be somewhat of a conspiracy theorists point of view, but if you think about it, the recording industry controls who they want to hire on to sing for them. The industry also probably wrote all the songs that they want their musicians to sing. I also feel that in times of racial segregation the recording industries could have integrated African American singers into their studios to sway the opinion of the public into liking them, and in turn letting the industry become more profitable. The whole segregation of music between white and black is kind of interesting to me, because of the example of Elvis we had talked about. Where people would call into the station to see if he was white or black because they could not tell by his voice. What interests me is that the white people called because they wanted to see if he was black so they would know to not listen to it, but when they found out he was white they knew it was okay to listen to it. Inversely, when black people heard it and, in the early stages of Elvis, it was the same style of music that they were playing they might have enjoyed it, until they found out he was white. Then they got mad at him for stealing their songs, which he was doing.

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