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  • ‘Dancing with my darlin’’: Patti Page and adaptation in pop music

    Author(s)
    May, Anthony
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    May, Anthony
    Year published
    2009
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    Abstract
    This article looks at the circumstances of adaptation in the pop music of the late 1940s and the early 1950s. Contrary to popular accounts that would see adaptation as evidence of an exploitative relationship based around race, the argument shows how adaptation functioned to generate and maintain growth in a three-tiered industry that was looking for new business models to adapt to the post-war commercial and social environments. Without denying the exploitative nature of adaptation, the article recognizes its value and strategic utility in the process of growth during a boom period that allowed unprecedented growth across ...
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    This article looks at the circumstances of adaptation in the pop music of the late 1940s and the early 1950s. Contrary to popular accounts that would see adaptation as evidence of an exploitative relationship based around race, the argument shows how adaptation functioned to generate and maintain growth in a three-tiered industry that was looking for new business models to adapt to the post-war commercial and social environments. Without denying the exploitative nature of adaptation, the article recognizes its value and strategic utility in the process of growth during a boom period that allowed unprecedented growth across all sectors of the industry, both mainstream and marginal.
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    Journal Title
    Continuum
    Volume
    23
    Issue
    2
    Subject
    Screen and digital media
    Communication and media studies
    Cultural studies
    Cultural studies not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/30580
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