The World of Music 7th Edition

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The World of Music7th Edition

• Part 2
• Listening to American Music
• Folk, Religious, Pop, and Jazz
• CHAPTER 6
• American Popular Music

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American Popular Music

• Tin Pan Alley
• Country
• African American influenced
• Blues
• Gospel
• Motown
• Rap
• Pop/Pock

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Common Traits of Popular Music

• Music that is known by a majority of interested
  people at any given time
• Simple and Tuneful
• Singable Lyrics
• Repetitive
• Three (or less) chords (typically)
• Strong Beat and Regular Meter
• Clear Phrases

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Measuring a Songs Popularity

• Then
• measured by sales of sheet music
• Now
• Radio/Jukebox play
• Billboard Magazine
• The Hit Parade Radio Show
• Airplay
• Sales
• LPs/45s
• Cassettes/8-Tracks
• CDs
• Downloads

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Colonial American/Pre 20th Century Popular Music

• Opera Melodies
• Scottish and Irish Airs
• Hymns
• German Art Songs

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Songs by Stephen Foster

• Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)
• Oh Susanna!
• My Old Kentucky Home
• Old Black Joe
• Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair
• Come Where My Love Lies Desiring
• Beautiful Dreamer

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Minstrel Shows

• Minstrel Song
• First Distinctive American Music style
• Lively, Syncopated, humorous
• Written by and for Whites, sung by musicians in
  Black Face
• Attempted to portray the Negro way of life
• Often Stereotypical and not accurate

• Drawn from
• Popular Music
• Folk Music
• Songs from Italian Opera
• Eventually written by Black Composers
• So it ended up as Blacks, portraying Whites,
  who were portraying Blacks
• Preceded Vaudeville

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Vaudeville Shows

• Similar to modern variety shows typically a
  group of unrelated acts
• Singers
• Dancers
• Comedians
• Jugglers
• Child Performers
• Animals
• Dramatic Sketches

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Tin Pan Alley

• A place in NYC
• 28th street
• Typically in Verse-Chorus form
• Where to hear Tin Pan Alley Sons
• Vaudeville
• Broadway Musicals
• Films
• Nightclubs
• Radio and Recordings
• Jazz Concerts

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Tin Pan Alley Names

• Composers
• Jerome Kern
• Cole Porter
• George Gershwin
• Irving Berlin
• Richard Rodgers

• Performers
• Al Jolson
• Eddie Cantor
• Rudy Vallee
• Kate Smith
• Paul Whiteman
• Bing Crosby

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Broadway Musicals

• A Musical Play
• Acting
• Singing (but using vernacular languages)
• Costumes
• National Tours

• Then
• Stirke Up the Band
• Porgy and Bess
• West Side Story
• Oklahoma!
• Now
• The Producers
• Spam-a-lot
• Cats
• The Lion King
• Phantom of the Opera

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Film and Film Music

• born in 1927
• The Jazz Singer
• Entertainment for the masses
• Transports the viewer to a different world

• Singers who Act(ed)
• Then
• Bing Crosby
• Frank Sinatra
• Barbra Streisand
• Now
• Harry Connick Jr.
• Lindsay Lohan
• 50 Cent
• Ice-T

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Radio and Recordings

• Invention of the Term Hit
• Folk Styles Now were preserved
• Recorded specialized categories of music
• Sold the recordings back to the category of
  people the music came from
• Fame for Formerly Obscure Artists
• Aided the spread of Jazz

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Country Music

• Hillbilly
• Cowboy Songs
• Western Swing
• Bluegrass
• Nashville Sound

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Hillbilly

• Described the poor, illiterate, rural, uneducated
  southerners
• Viewed as culturally and musically inferior
• Later it represented wholesome concepts in
  America
• Performers
• Uncle Dave Macon
• The Carter Family
• Jimmy Rodgers

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Cowboy songs

• Dealt with Loneliness and infidelity
• When performed on solo piano
• Honky Tonk
• Propelled by the movie industry
• Singing Cowboys
• Gene Autry
• Tex Ritter
• Roy Rogers

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Bluegrass

• Mountain Music
• Instruments
• Acoustic Guitar
• Fiddle
• Mandolin
• Bass Fiddle
• Banjo

• Artists then
• Bill Monrow
• Lester Flatt
• Earl Scruggs
• Artists Now
• Alison Krauss
• Nickel Creek
• Nashville Bluegrass Band

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The Nashville Sound

• Grand Ole Opry
• Influential from 1957-1971
• Made Nashville an important city in the American
  Music Industry
• Obscured roots of country
• Musicians
• Roy Acuff
• Chet Atkins

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Contemporary Country

• Honky-Tonk
• Bluegrass
• Cowboy Music
• Mainstream or Traditional Country
• Young Country
• Success measured by tours and concerts

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Popular Music with African-Americans

• Motown
• Gospel
• Rhythm and Blues (RB)
• Race Records
• Recorded speciality types of music marketed for
  African-Americans
• Boogie Woogie
• Soul
• An extension of RB
• Name changed in 1969 by Billboard mag
• Picked up where Motown left off
• Rock
• A combination of Black music (RB) and White
  music (CW)
• Originally segregated, but Brown v. BOE changed
  that
• Rockabilly Southern CW plus Rock

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British Invasion

• Served mostly Urban Whites
• In England, it is influenced by American RB
• Everly Brothers
• Buddy Holly
• Chuck Berry
• Little Richard
• Groups
• The Beatles
• The Rolling Stones
• The Who
• Pick Floyd
• Strongly Influenced Future Rock Bands

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New Technologies Create Rock Genres

• Sound Amplification
• Studio Manipulations
• Synthesizers
• MIDISampling
• Mixing

• Acid Rock
• Art Rock
• Blues Rock
• Folk Rock
• Gospel Rock
• Industrial Rock
• New Wave
• Punk
• Southern Rock
• Metal

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Rap and Hip-Hop

• Embraced Technology
• Socially Aware
• Led by Black Males
• New use of the Turntable/Record Player as an
  instrument
• Scratching
• Turntabalism

• From Urban Arts
• Street Poetry
• Graffitti
• Tagging
• Break Dancing