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What role did the radio play in popularizing African American music?
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∙ 9y ago
The rise of top-40 radio in the mid-1950s (preceded by ground-breaking white disc jockeys like Alan Freed who played black music for white audiences) was a major gift for black performers. Thanks to top-40, black entertainers like Fats Domino, Little Richard, the Platters, and many others, could be heard even in places that were still segregated, and their songs became hits nation-wide rather than just in the black community. Radio did not end segregation, but it certainly helped. The popularity of top-40 meant large numbers of kids wanted to hear the best songs, and many of those kids did not care what color the performer was. There was some resistance to black performers in certain Southern cities, and some of the owners tried to ban rock and roll, calling it the "devil's music." But there was so much demand for the hits that it was difficult to prevent young people from listening to their favorite radio station, or buying the songs they liked best.
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