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Date Posted:Fri April 18, 2008 08:53:52 In reply to:
Mark R. Deaver
's message, "Re: Why?" on Fri April 18, 2008 00:40:26
It seems to me that it was the growth of the independent labels, which started in the post-WW II '40s and was nurtured by the GI Bill and as a reaction to the 2 musicians' strikes in the '40s, which fed the rock & roll revolution by providing access to race records for white teens. Soon white labels like Sun followed. These events broke the stranglehold which had spoonfed music to America from the big labels into 3 segregated markets- white pop, race records, and country. If not for the indies, there might not have been a rock & roll explosion in the '50s. It may have come slowly. The growth of the indies was a marvelous thing. The NY Times article below discusses it.
