Pop Music

LiveMusic — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:04:39 +0000

Pop music is a type of popular music distinguished from classical or art music and from folk music . The term indicates specific stylistic traits, but the genre also includes artists working in many styles such as rock, hip hop, rhythm and blues ( R&B ), and country, making it a flexible category. The expression “pop music” may also be used to refer to specific sub genres (within the pop music genre ) that are in some cases referred to as soft rock and pop/rock.
Characteristics as a sub genre
Pop “is designed to appeal to everyone” and ” does not come from any specific place or mark off any specific taste.” In musical terms, it is essentially “conservative” in that it attempts to resonate with a large segment of its target demographic rather than pushing artistic boundaries. It’s ” offer d from on high (by record businesses, radio programmers and concert promoters) rather than being made from below…” (Frith 2001, p.95-96). But over time, pop has gone from “popular in general” to “a genre ” described as sounding musically similar to rap, but with singing. This is due to radio stations labeling themselves as “pop stations” taking heavy prefer ence over certain sounds, tossing other popular bands who do not fit into the sound or other categories like rock into the “alternative” label.
a number of times used to describe the current popular genres of music of any given time, the term “pop” cannot be used describe any one specific style.
History of pop music
1930s and 1940s
Styles influencing the later development of pop include the Blues (Chicago), and Country (Tennessee)
1950s
Early Pop music artists include Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, and Peggy Lee, but other artists like Bill Haley and his Comets, Fats Domino and Elvis Presley become popular with the young generation.
1960s
The decade begins out with such Teen Idols such as, Johnny Tillotson, Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, Tommy Roe, Gene Pitney, and Frankie Avalon. It explodes midway with Carole King, Neil Diamond, Burt Bacharach, Aretha Franklin, Isley Brothers, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, and Simon and Garfunkel. It may be said that The Beatles led the British Invasion in this decade.
1970s
A proliferation of new sounds from the disco of the BeeGees, the piano sounds of Billy Joel and Elton John, the country of the Eagles, the rock-influenced pop of artists like Rod Stewart, Steely Dan, and Fleetwood Mac. ABBA was a swedish band who grew to fame following winning Eurovision Song Contest and starting a whole new revolution of pop music.
1980s
Notable highlights for pop music in the 1980s are Michael Jackson’s second Epic label release, Thriller, which went on to become the perfect -selling album of all time, and Madonna albums ” like a Virgin”, “True Blue”, ” like a Prayer” . Michael Jackson was at times referred to as “The King of Pop” and Madonna was named “The Queen of Pop“. Other artists included Michael Bolton, Prince, Janet Jackson, Duran Duran, The Police, ABBA, Cyndi Lauper, Whitney Houston, Phil Collins, Kylie Minogue and Culture Club.
1990s and 21st century
The 1990s and 21st century were marked by a resurgence of boy band and girl group trends. From the UK came the likes of Take That, Blue, the Spice Girls, a highly successful formula. Irish boy bands of the time include Boyzone and Westlife. The U.S. had New Edition, New children On The Block followed by the Backstreet Boys, Hanson, girl trio Destiny’s Child and then ‘N Sync and Pop Princesses Willa Ford, Mandy Moore, Britney Spears, Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera. Canadian Avril Lavigne became popular with her album Let Go. Australia had Boys from Oz. 1999 saw the rise of the Latin explosion with Ricky Martin at the forefront with his world expansive smash hit “Livin’ La Vida Loca”. Other latin artists to follow were Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Enrique Iglesias, and Marc Anthony. In 2002, Justin Timberlake had critical and commercial acclaim with his “Justified” album, emerging as the new “Prince of Pop“, Jesse McCartney has emerged from Dream Street as a high-rating singer with tunes like She’s No You, Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff has become popular in the 2000s. artists like Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Kylie Minogue, Celine Dion, Garth Brooks, Shania Twain and Madonna have also been highly successful. Reality television shows, such as American Idol, begin producing multi-platinum artists like Kelly Clarkson and Clay Aiken. British pop rock groups such as McFly emerge.
Sound and themes
Pop music, in whatever musical influence form it derives from, may be produced by a more basic songwriting approach and arrangement. The emphasis is a number of times on a simple r melody, which makes the tunes more memorable, and may use stripped-down rhythms. The mixture of the melody and the rhythm allows for harmony to be a driving force of the song. Themes range from individual tunes to vivacious event jams. Still, the the majority common theme deals with the expansive range of emotions which stem from physical or emotional love.
Music videos and live concert are a number of times used for exposure in the media, and artists may have extravagant stage shows and use choreographed dancing. many pop tunes are used in both Dance clubs and Sport clubs.

The Music Within

LiveMusic — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:37:37 +0000

Music as all of us all know, is the act of relating musical notes, in the production of an audible sound. Music has been in existence since the creation of the world, which virtually the majority of us cannot date. Music in its real sense is the soul of life, because in our everyday life, everybody have a time to sit and actually reason on what it is all of us want to do at our leisure time. Most leisures are spent listening to music. There have been, diverse type of music, some of which will be mentioned in this article. Hip-hop, rap, pop, jazz are examples of music a number of times listened to, in the western world. In Africa where i am from, Highlife, JuJu, Fuji, Afrobeat are the delights of all.
Now, that all of us have diverse kinds and categories of music, it is necessary to know which one you’ll choose as a beginner to concentrate on. Listen to all these categories, and try all the time to see which one you know how to do perfect and from there you are prone to being a star in it. Never look down on yourself, music is a part of you. You’ll be surprised at the inspiration you get while on the move, sleeping or on any other activity, it comes to you like a twilight.
Musicains like Michael Jackson, Marvin Haye, Westlife, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, JayZ, Missy Elliot, Rihannah, Beyonce were not born with music in their mouth. They learnt it. It’s time you started a music limited of your own and you may be come the next Grammy award winner do you believe that?

Live music blog-Thriller coming to the stage

SyncWordpress — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:46:16 +0000

Live music blog- “Thriller” is officially coming to the stage. I personally think this could make an amazing play for Broadway. The music from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and “Off The Wall” will be used for the musical. It will be based upon the famous music video that spoofed horror films. James L. Nederlander, owner of nine theaters in New York City, has acquired the rights to the stage version. They have not announced what songs specifically will be included in the production or who will choreograph, but expect more details soon.

With the music created on those albums and the dancing genius of Michael Jackson, this could be an all-time great. Of course, it will come down to execution, but this is one that I will stand in line for.

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Pop Music

The Music Within

Live music blog-Thriller coming to the stage