More types of the genre are likely to pop up over time. Sheet music was popularly used in the pop genre, where musical sheets were published as guides to play an instrument. At the beginning of the 20th century, pianos saw their way into the phonograph, resulting in new renditions of pop music. Here is a highlight of insights and events that shaped pop music. Regardless of the barriers that the pioneers of pop music experienced, the genre did not lose traction. The success of pop in this decade is attributed to labels such as Columbia Records, which combined the music genres of this time to produce pop music.
Pioneer singers of the 50s pop songs such as Elvis Presley , Carl Perkins , and Bill Haley took pop music to an entirely new level. This is one of the reasons why pop music received a large teen fan base. Sub-Saharan African music frequently relies on percussion instruments including xylophones, drums, and tone-producing instruments such as the mbira or "thumb piano. Music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith. Its forms vary widely across the world, according to culture and social context.
Musical styles originating from a large number of Asian countries located in Central, Southern, and East Asia. A music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late s, combining elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off-beat.
Musical forms that have origins many generations into the past, commonly without formal notation or description, commonly familiar to people in a given culture. Music produced independent of major commercial record labels, possibly including a do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing. The term indie is also used to describe music of this style regardless of actual production channel. The s. Give us feedback. Read Next View.
Residence Inn Los Angeles L. Heavenly Valley Lodge. San Francisco Proper Hotel. Desert Riviera Hotel. The Little Yellow House. The Cedar House Sport Hotel. Olympic Village Inn. Element Sacramento Airport. However, it was the introduction of a white man who sang songs written by black musicians that helped rock and roll really spread across state and racial lines. The reaction Presley inspired among hordes of adolescent girls—screaming, crying, rioting—solidified his reputation as the first true rock and roll icon.
Prior to , rock and roll was primarily an American export. Although U. This situation changed almost overnight, with the arrival of British pop phenomenon the Beatles. Combining elements of skiffle—a type of music played on rudimentary instruments, such as banjos, guitars, or homemade instruments—doo-wop, and soul, the four mop-haired musicians from Liverpool, England, created a genre of music known as Merseybeat Term used to describe the music of bands originating in the Mersey area of England during the s, e.
When the Beatles arrived in New York in , they were met by hundreds of reporters and police officers and thousands of fans. Their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show a few days later was the largest audience for an American television program, with approximately one in three Americans 74 million tuning in.
During their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show , the Stones were lewd and vulgar, prompting host Ed Sullivan to denounce their behavior although he privately acknowledged that the band had received the most enthusiastic applause he had ever seen.
The British Invasion transformed rock and roll into the all-encompassing genre of rock, sending future performers in two different directions: the melodic, poppy sounds of the Beatles, on the one hand, and the gritty, high-volume power rock of the Stones on the other. The branching out of rock and roll continued in several other directions throughout the s.
Surf music Carefree, hedonistic music that developed around the California surf culture in the s and is characterized by twanging, distorted electric guitar sounds. With their twanging electric guitars and glossy harmonies, the surf groups sang of girls, beaches, and convertible cars cruising along the West Coast. In Detroit, some black performers were developing a sound that would have crossover appeal with both black and white audiences.
Producer and songwriter Berry Gordy Jr. Capitalizing on the s girl-group craze, Gordy produced hits by the Marvelettes, Martha and the Vandellas, and, most successfully, Diana Ross and the Supremes. For his bands, he created a slick, polished image designed to appeal to the American mainstream.
In the late s, supporters of the civil rights movement—along with feminists, environmentalists, and Vietnam War protesters—were gravitating toward folk Unpolished genre of music based on oral traditions and often associated with the social protest movement of the s. Broadly referring to music that is passed down orally through the generations, folk music retained an unpolished, amateur quality that inspired participation and social awareness.
Carrying on the legacy of the s labor activist Woody Guthrie, singer-songwriters such as Joan Baez; Peter, Paul, and Mary; and Bob Dylan sang social protest songs about civil rights, discrimination against black Americans, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Having earned himself a reputation as a political spokesperson, Dylan was lambasted by traditional folk fans for playing an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival. However, his attempt to reach a broader crowd inspired the folk rock Folk music played with electric instruments.
Protest music in the s was closely aligned with the hippie culture, in which some viewed taking drugs as a form of personal expression and free speech. Artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and the Doors believed that the listening experience could be enhanced using mind-altering drugs. This spirit of freedom and protest culminated in the infamous Woodstock festival in the summer of , although the subsequent deaths of many of its stars from drug overdoses cast a shadow over the psychedelic culture.
After the Vietnam War ended, college students began to settle down and focus on careers and families. Musically, this ideological shift resulted in the creation of glam rock Extravagant, self-indulgent form of rock that incorporated flamboyant costumes, heavy makeup, and elements of hard rock and pop. It proved to be a precursor for the punk movement in the late s. Equally flamboyant, but rising out of a more electronic sound, disco Commercialized dance music that became popular in the s and is associated with extravagant glittery costumes.
Records were created especially for discos, and record companies churned out tunes that became huge hits on the dance floor. Reacting against the commercialism of disco and corporate rock, punk Minimalist, angry form of rock that includes simple chord structures and often includes politically motivated lyrics. Like the skiffle bands of the s, the appeal of punk rock was that anyone with basic musical skills could participate. Never a huge commercial success in the United States, punk rock exploded in the United Kingdom, where high unemployment rates and class divisions had created angry, disenfranchised youths.
The Sex Pistols, fronted by Johnny Rotten, developed an aggressive, pumping sound that appealed to a rebellious generation of listeners, although the band was disparaged by many critics at the time. Punk bands began to abandon their sound in the late s, when the punk style became assimilated into the rock mainstream. Even though the Sex Pistols were severely criticized in the s, their music went on to inspire countless acts and helped develop the underground music scene in England and the United States.
Whereas many British youths expressed their displeasure through punk music, many disenfranchised black American youths in the s turned to hip-hop Urban culture that incorporates activities such as break dancing and graffiti art with the musical techniques of rapping, sampling, and scratching records.
Reacting against the extravagance of disco, many poor urban rappers developed their new street culture by adopting a casual image consisting of T-shirts and sportswear, developing a language that reflected the everyday concerns of the people in low-income, urban areas, and by embracing the low-budget visual art form of graffiti.
The hip-hop genre first became popular among black youths in the late s, when record spinners in the Bronx and Harlem started to play short fragments of songs rather than the entire track known as sampling. Early hip-hop artists sampled all types of music, like funk, soul, and jazz, later adding special effects to the samples and experimenting with techniques such as rotating or scratching records back and forth to create a rhythmic pattern.
Artists such as Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five added political and social commentary on the realities of life in low-income, high-crime areas—a trend that would continue with later rappers such as Public Enemy and Ice-T. Early hip-hop artists, like Run-D. In the early s, a second wave of rap artists brought inner-city rap to American youths by mixing it with hard guitar rock.
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