Muh 3025 – the Post-War Era
MUH3025Unit 4: The Post-War Era (Prompt 2)The post- war era and the rock and roll period that followed created new opportunities for African- Americans artists and their relationship with people of Caucasian. Â During the music industry rose into difference of the distribution of music in the form of record labels. The record industry increased the amount of opportunities for African-American to thrive. Another form that took part in creating new opportunities for people of African descent was an independent label. Independent labels are simply record labels that do not need any funding from second or third parties of the major record labels in order to prosper. In fact black southerners were happy and given more voice among the people of America when the Broadcast Music Incorporated was created.
Rhythm and blues were a prime genre for black artists especially B.B. King, Ruth Brown, and Ray Charles. These new opportunities open the door for the transformation of the country blues into urban blues, the development of a more carefully arranged form of R&B, and lastly the development of a more carefully arranged form of R&B. In the urban areas of Chicago, Chess Records who took over Aristocrat Records was very influential in bringing to age and to fame Muddy Waters.  Muddy Waters was considered “the father of modern Chicago blues.” Chess Records was the primary reason his labels became a big hit. Around this time too radio DJ’s also were key into creating new opportunities for African-Americans in the music industry. Alan Freed was one of the first disc jockey also known today as DJ. During his radio broadcast he mixed blues, country, and rhythm and blues music to close the gap and build the relationship between white and black. WDIA as well also helped promote black music by being one of the first radio stations to play black music in its collection of music.