Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is a comprehensive history of DJing over the last century and how innovative techniques spawned new genres of music. It's also a testament to the artistic merit of DJing which is commonly despised by people who think that DJing is nothing more than playing one record after another, without any sort of musicianship or skill. DJing is, in fact, a momentous artistic force that has helped to define eras in musical culture. 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. I love music books. The more niche, the better. I enjoy dance music and hip-hop. I also love reading about genres that I know next to nothing about. And I'll tell you what, out of hundreds of names and musical acts listed in this book, I bet I recognized about ten. I kept waiting to get to the David Guetta and Steve Aoki chapters, but this book is so niche that these superstars were mentioned once, maybe twice each. It was originally published before the new millennium, but it has been edited consistently, keeping up to date until about five or so years ago. I only had this one on my to-read list because one of my favorite podcasts, "You're Wrong About," cited it in their awesome episode on disco, sparking my interest in the untold history of the DJ.

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Radio is a unique broadcast medium. It has the power to reach millions, and yet it has the intimacy to make them each feel they are the most important person listening. Unlike television, which invades the home with images of the outside world, radio 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, in his 1971 book The Deejays, wrote, “The electron tube changed everything, for it returned mankind to spoken communication.” and promoting the underground bands of the emerging hippie movement, including then unsigned acts Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. Founded by Ellen Allien in 1999, Bpitch control is the sound of techno. With releases from Apparat, Paul Kalkbrenner, Telefon Tel Aviv, Métaraph and more, Allien’s label encompasses all manner of techno, & so many of these releases have changed the trajectory of electronic music. In 1942 Billboard introduced a music chart called the "Harlem Hit Parade." Three years later it became "race records." This wasn't meant to refer to any specific musical style, it just meantIn 1911 in New York City, Dr. Elman B. Meyers started broadcasting a daily 18-hour program which was almost all records. His wife, Sybil True, the world’s first recorded female DJ, went on air in 1914 with a show she called “The Little Ham Program.” She borrowed records from a local music store and concentrated on young people’s music in an attempt to encourage youthful interest in the possibilities of radio. Even at this early stage, it was clear that it was a powerful force. Mrs. True noted with satisfaction that her program had a noticeable effect on the store’s record sales. “These young operators would run down the next day to be sure to buy the one they heard on the radio the night before.” at least six months before freeform was born in San Francisco, though this had been rejected by the station management. In spring 1967, Peel returned to England and introduced the same ideas on his Perfumed Garden show

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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 The song is featured in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on "Fever 105", one of the in-game radio stations accessed while driving.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 in this by the Federal Radio Commission, who as Arnold Passman wrote, “attempted everything this side of public hangings to curb the practice.” radio. Even at this early stage, it was clear that it was a powerful force. Mrs. True noted with satisfaction that her program had a noticeable effect on the store's record sales. "These young operators would in his 1971 book The Deejays, wrote, "The electron tube changed everything, for it returned mankind to spoken communication." Capitol Records formalized this idea of radio promotion in 1942, the first year of the label's existence. With his new company struggling to survive, and unable to press up records because of a wartime If you want to hip to the tip and bop to the top, you get some threads that just won't stop," rhymed Lavada Durst on Austin's KVET. "Not the flower, not the root, but the seed, sometimes

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in this by the Federal Radio Commission, who as Arnold Passman wrote, "attempted everything this side of public hangings to curb the practice." 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 comePDF / EPUB File Name: Last_Night_a_DJ_Saved_My_Life_-_Bill_Brewster.pdf, Last_Night_a_DJ_Saved_My_Life_-_Bill_Brewster.epub It was in 1922 that radio is said to have begun in earnest. Before that there were just scientists and hobbyists dotted around the world toying with the medium and trying to find uses for the new technology. Radio was broadcast to midwestern farmers with coded weather predictions; it was used to boost the morale of the troops of both sides in the First World War trenches; Thomas E. Clark in Detroit broadcast to ships plying Lake Erie. In San Jos’ in 1909, Charles “Doc” Herrold saw himself as the first person to realize the entertainment possibilities of the medium, and gave all his neighbors crystal sets so they could receive the music and interviews he broadcast. increased. Soon only the big new radio networks such as NBC and CBS could afford to broadcast only live music. world started buying records instead of sheet music, however, power shifted away from the publishers and songwriters and into the hands of the record companies and recording artists. Allowing records on the radio would Cinquemani, Sal (August 21, 2001). "Mariah Carey – Glitter". Slant Magazine . Retrieved October 26, 2014.