man who changed the name, and who did more than anyone to popularize the music, aroused such controversy in doing so, that he would be investigated by the U.S. government for much of his professional life, an investigation plain old racism stop him, however. He bought time on the station through a white advertising agency, hovered outside the studio until just before his allotted slot, and then used his paid-for airtime to interview two prominent records played on the radio would stop people from going out and buying them; and ASCAP, the publishing organization, didn't want its songs broadcast without greater and greater royalties. on his ignominious departure from the public eye rather than his considerable influence on popular music. In 1941 ASCAP demanded a royalty increase of nearly seventy percent. Broadcasters resisted the increase and ASCAP called a strike. This lasted from January to October. During this time, no ASCAP songs could

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an era of Cold War paranoia, and following the shattering revelations about the fixing of popular TV quiz shows, the government decided to turn its attention to radio. interchangeably, and both Billboard and Variety continued to refer to the music he played as "rhythm and blues." It was only when Elvis Presley's career was launched nationally that the two The American Federation of Musicians, a tight-knit closed shop union, declared the DJ to be the enemy of the musician and fought long and hard to prevent records being broadcast on radio. The AFM were aided While my interest started to wane a bit anyway half-way the book by the time disco rolls around (I listen to an awful lot of music and don't mind dabbling in spinning records publically myself from time to time, but I've never really warmed to techno, house and its later spin-offs), the descriptions of this club and that DJ and this great breakthough in mixing and that legendary night of 'perfect storms' do tend to get repetitive at some point. Perhaps you had to be there, as Brewster seems to demonstrate by his rising enthusiasm by the end.is somehow part of the place in which it is heard, and the voices and music it carries manage to create a strong feeling of community. Sociologist Marshall McLuhan called it the "tribal drum." Arnold Passman, concept "Top 40" and applied it to radio programming with great success. WABC in New York adopted it in late 1960 and by 1962 was the city's number one station.

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As Marshall McLuhan declared, "The radio injected a full electric charge into the world of the phonograph." And it was in the context of radio that the DJ gained his first victories. From humble beginnings as an experimental hobbyist, via his A decade later the radio waves were tamed, but it would take another full ten years before Marconi’s equipment was able to send more than Morse’s dots and dashes. However, when the gramophone and radio signal were finally combined, we find our first DJ candidates. ad-libbed commercials helped them sell 300 refrigerators during a blizzard, and when he made a wartime appeal for pianos to entertain the troops, the USO were offered 1,500. As his influence grew, he held a contest to comeletters, each containing a dollar, requesting a box of Retardo. By the end of the week the ad had drawn 3,750 responses.