Essay About Record Producers And Big Orchestra

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New generation can come in and make movies now because old generation cannot connect to the younger culture
Classically movies were scored through a big orchestra and composer
No score in Scorsese’s Mean Streets whatsoever but it still set the mood
Big change in the way movies are made and the way they are scored
Government helped finance music and movies
Is there any role of the government to finance theatre and film?
In most countries, the government takes a little tax at the movie theatre and puts it in a fund and that goes to fund local production
Government can give but it can also take away
Very beginning of McCarthyism
Hollywood is so powerful, ability to get into your brain, there’s probably communists in Hollywood and they’re probably trying to subvert you
Must root them out
Threw people in jail not because they were communists but because they refused to rat out their friends
Orson Welles makes Cradle Will Rock with government funding and then the government thought it was a subversive play
War of the Worlds – radio broadcast about alien invasion that caused millions of people to freak out and begin to evacuate
Record producers were in charge of finding the talent
John Hammond did this almost better than anyone in general
Found Billie Holiday
Had the opportunity to make a name for herself which many black people did not have before
Had a heroin problem and risked her life daily doing it
“Strange Fruit” – speaking up against the lynching of blacks, a regular experience in the South
Sings