Advertising Agencies - answer✔Controlled radio content: Wrote shows, arranged for sponsors, and
delivered them to stations (comedy, drama, and music programs)
Alan Freed - answer✔"Father of Rock n' Roll"
Disk jockey from Cleveland, Ohio
Won right to play African-American R&B on the radio
American recorded music became international - answer✔During WWII, Americans at home and
soldiers overseas listened to the same music
Ampex - answer✔American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff; recording
machine manufacturer
Art Slathery - answer✔A&R person for race and hillbilly music at Columbia
ASCAP - answer✔Battled radio networks and wanted more money for radio play; controlled by
publishers; american society of composers, authors, and publishers
Atlantic Records - answer✔Founded by Ahmet Ertgun and Herb Abramson in 1947 in New York
Band leader died during WWII - answer✔Glenn Miller
Benny Goodman - answer✔"King of Swing"
Bing Crosby - answer✔First to use tape
Signed by Jack Kapp at Decca
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" and "White Christmas"
Blacklisted performers and writers - answer✔Due to the anti-communist scare some artists with liberal
or socialist views were blacklisted from the music industry (1947)
BMI - answer✔First PRO with "open door" policy; Created to be a competitor to ASCAP; Broadcast
Music, Inc.
Bob Willis - answer✔King of western swing
Brand name of jukeboxes - answer✔Rock-Ola and Wurlitzer
Brown v. Board of Education - answer✔Decision that says segregation is a violation of the 14th
amendment
Capitol Records - answer✔Liberty Records
Founded by Glenn Wallichs, Johnny Mercer, and Georgy Desylva
They sent free records to radio stations
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