| Description | Tracks 1-19: The third programme in the series ‘Vox Pop’, titled ‘Muscular Music’ deals with the pop music industry, aiming to give ‘a subjective response to its impact’. It includes interviews with industrial financiers, DJs, critics, and journalists: Sir Joseph Lockwood, the Chairman of EMI, Frank Smyth and Ian Dove, publicists, Paul Jones, singer with Manfred Mann, Andy Hogenbawm, former bass player with the Rolling Stones, Enoch Kent, a folk singer from Glasgow, and Dudley Bayford, a sheet music editor, and others. The programme discusses pop music as a commodity, the social and economic changes which created a market for pop, the power of the mass media, the relationship between artists and industry executives and A and R men, and corruption in the music industry.
Total: 50.22 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0575480 |