ʀᴏᴄᴋ ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴏʟʟ: ᴀᴛ ʜᴏᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴀᴍ ʀᴀᴅɪᴏ

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most significant musical transformation in 
60s in pop music - rock and roll, soul, rhythm
and blues, folk music

1950s - AM radio primary medium for new music

top 40 format, investors buy groups of radio stations

most songs less than 5 min, 40 songs in 4 hours

payola - pay influential DJ, boost sales

Billboard's pop music sales reflect stagnation

Theme from a Summer Place - Percy Faith (1960)
conservative orchestral instrumental, no.1 for 9 weeks

top 10 that year- Frankie Avalon, Connie Francis,
Brenda Lee, not breaking new ground

authors of Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History
of Rock & Roll: "case of creeping blands"

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              Film Music

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1960 - largely conservative

new developments in Europe, resemble dissonant

modern classical composers

Bernard Herrmann - score for 1960 Alfred Hitchhock

"Psycho", black and white film

only string instruments

clashing tone clusters, minor seconds, major sevenths

famous shower scene - microphones close to instruments