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To: Fiji Hill

The Music Establishment wasn’t even white vs. black or young vs. old, it was ASCAP (anti-rock, anti-hillbilly, anti-r&b) vs. BMI (which would publish such recordings).

Supposedly some of the resentment dates back to a musician union strike of the 1940s when artists weren’t supposed to be making new recordings.


52 posted on 05/01/2017 6:36:39 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: a fool in paradise

Unions made Big Band music too expensive and difficult, leading to small-combo Bebop in jazz, and probably to small-combo rock-n-roll.


54 posted on 05/01/2017 6:46:36 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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