• significance in recording industry

    TITLE: music recording: Birth of a mass medium
    SECTION: Birth of a mass medium
    TITLE: Independent record labels and producers
    ...down by a group of mavericks who knew little about music but were fast learners about business. What they discovered was an expanding “market” of clubs and bars in each of which stood a jukebox that needed stocking with an ever-changing stack of 78-rpm records. These records had to have either a beat heavy enough to cut through the raucous clamour of a bar or a message desolate...