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performed in formal "necktie" concerts. The lighter popular music
was performed for the sake of the masses that did not consider music as
culture but rather as entertainment. ,
pop music became an industry of entertainment for the masses that indeed
sprouted some artistic achievements, yet, in most cases, addressed the
biggest audience possible, without artistic pretensions. Electronic media,
radio and television at the time, and the development of cheap distribution
means like vinyl records and later the CDs - made pop music a successful
industry in which accomplished singers and players become millionaires.
Artists as Michael Jackson,
Madonna
and Bruce Springsteen
are now superstars whose success exceeds the musical arena and their image
is handled by a system of image and marketing consultants inconceivable
in the terms of previous generations. Above
every other pop phenomenon of the 20th century, stands an amazing artistic
legend which is pop music's highest achievement ever - The
Beatles.
This band and its four members, influenced and continues to influence generations
of musicians and pop lovers. Their staggering success and the unprecedented
fan phenomenon (called "Beatlmania" at its time) demonstrates
well the fact that even pure art such as the music of this band can gain
popularity and the love of the audience. The Beatles were inspired by many
elements, from European classical music
to Indian music. Rock
and Roll,
which is a more rugged style in pop, originated in Blues
and black soul
music in America,
and now uses an appropriate form of expression for bands and artists of
rather heavier style than the very light trend called "Mainstream".
The first and one of the biggest stars of rock was Elvis
Presley.
and electric keyboards, contributed a great
deal to the new sound of rock and pop music of today, and modern
styles, such as Dance,
Techno
and Ambient,
are based on extensive use of synthesizers, computers and programmed sound
machines.Popular music Styles   ,
guitars,
drums,
electric effects and most pop songs are sung by solo or group vocalists.  ,
Rhythm & Blues,
Gospel,
Jazz
and American Countrymusic.
Bill Haley, with his greatest hit “Rock
Around the Clock”, created a danceable and catchy music that became
highly popular among youth, with an insistent and strong back beat and
mostly three chords. With simple lyrics and black blues and rhythm and
blues influences, Haley and others succeeded in making Rock & Roll
the young white audiences' music.
to the rest of the Western world. It originated
from Rock & Roll
and began as a fusion of styles such as Country
and Blues,
Rock became energetic and rebellious, changing every few years. It is only
natural for a genre that began its life as a fusion of styles, that Rock
has been fragmented into new styles and variations, such as Heavy
metal
and Soft rock,
Progressive rock, Punk
and New wave.
riffs, 'power chords' and rigid rhythms. In the 1970s, heavy metal
established itself as one of the most commercially successful forms of
Rock & Roll.
The electric guitar is the center of the Heavy metal rock. Technical skills
of guitarists in this style have always been very high and some of them
are considered innovators in guitar techniques and speed. .
Gospel singing is usually accompanied by instruments such as organ,
piano,
guitars
and percussion,
and it may merge into ecstatic dance. Emerging in the 19th century, as
a white music, black gospel music developed by the 1930s, out of the combination
of the earlier hymns and some elements from black spirituals.Country
folk music, and cowboy South-western music.
This music is simple in form and in harmony,
usually vocalized in romantic or sad ballads, accompanied by fiddles,
banjos,
harmonica
and guitars.
In the 1940s, a style named 'Bluegrass music' grew from the country music
and combined elements of dance, entertainment and religious folk music.
in the 1940s, Rhythm & Blues was the basis of Rock
& Roll.
It used Blues chord changes played with an insistent backbeat, by an ensemble,
with an emphasis on the song rather than improvisation. Eventually, Rhythm
& Blues metamorphosed into soul
music and the commercialized Rock & Roll..
The term describes a number of music styles from different regions of America,
such as the Motown pop-soul of Detroit, to
the sound of Philadelphia, Chicago,
and others. Soul music involves dramatic vocal
techniques, such as falsetto
and sighs, which became its trademarks in the pop music scene.
textures and improvisations and black Soul
music. Uses very complex and syncopated rhythmic patterns.,
the first punk band was the Sex Pistols, who
were thought of as a serious threat to the political order and caused countless
Punk bands to form. Musically, Punk musicians returned Rock
& Roll
to the basics of three chords
and a simple melody.,
and the faster, harder, abrasive Hardcore.
and European folk
music. The results were long and complex, semi-experimental, instrumental-vocal
works. Just like a classical programme work,
an art rock album mostly tried to tell a story or to describe a subject.
A few of them drew their inspiration from the classical opera
and were defined as 'Rock operas'. Whereas Progressive rock was
more improvisational and allowed influences by psychedelic and Jazz
music, Art rock showed a tendency toward mystical imagery with medieval
(middle ages) symbols and lyrics.
music without many pretensions. Many influences seem to be upon
New wave musicians like Duran Duran with their
synthesized
productions, Madness with the Ska
(a British-Jamaican dance music), Police with
Reggae,
and the Rock & Roll
of The Pretenders. In the early 1980s and
until the mid 1980s, the new MTV broadcast New Wave video clips extensively,
in order to fill their programs, and gave a boost to this music.
Rock
and Soul
music they heard on the radio, and they fused it with traditional
African-Jamaican music. The characteristic
rhythmic texture is an amalgam of short ostinatos on electric
guitars,
electric organ,
electric bass
and drums
emphasizing the off-beats of quadruple metre. Through the Reggae music,
which became most popular all over the world, Bob
Marley and the Wailers (his band) proclaimed
the Rastafarian religious movement's beliefs.  |
