Downloaded 19 times
Uploaded byStefan Walcott
Popular and Pop music
This document discusses the history and development of popular music and its evolution into pop music. It notes that popular music refers to music popular within a specific region, while pop music originated in America as a commercial genre influenced by market forces. Some key developments discussed include ragtime and minstrel songs being early forms of mass-produced popular music; rock and roll emerging from R&B music and incorporating electric guitars; and Elvis Presley becoming a pop phenomenon through his television appearances in the 1950s.
More Related Content
Similar to Popular and Pop music
Popular and Pop music
- 1.
- 2. popular music– any music which is popular within a specific area. E.g. calypso/soca in Southern Caribbean, Bollywood music in India. Pop music – an American created genre with defined modes of production and operation. Pop music’s ubiquity has ultimately led to it influencing all ‘popular’ worldwide expressions.
- 3. The keyto the production is the product. The key to the product is differentiation. Pop music is dictated by market forces. Media access is essential.
- 4. Ragtime andMinstrel songs: 1st mass produced Pop music form. R.T originally an Afro-American folk form re- interpreted and consumed by wider community. However, lacked image association.
- 5. Pop musicis an INDUSTRY and is closely associated with business, product, mass, industry, image and media. Pop music borrows mode of operation from industry and many of same practices.
- 7. An A-Americanmusical expression popular in Southern and Mid-Western states in 30’s and 40’s. Kansas City, Oklahoma, St. Louis. Music was dominated by A-Americans and was made for dancing. Frequently featured vocalists.
- 8. R&B’s performancepractices and musical content was reconfigured. Southern record producers sought white talent to perform these R+B numbers. Bill Haley and the Comets had 1st “R&B” hit with Rock around the clock.
- 9. Teenage Popmusic of the 50s. Used new mediums such as television Used the newly invented electric guitar- Fender Stratocaster.
- 10. Elvis wasthe prototype of the Pop artist. After his appearance on Ed Sullivan show, became a Pop phenom. T.V performances drew more than president’s speech. 1958 - Sold more than 20 million dollars worth of Elvis merchandise.
- 11. Baraka, Amiri.Blues People: Negro Music in White America. New York: W. Morrow, 1963. Print. Starr, Larry, and Christopher A. Waterman. American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to Mp3. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Print.