The World of Music 7th Edition.ppt

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1、The World of Music7th EditionPart 2Listening to American Music:Folk,Religious,Pop,and JazzCHAPTER 6American Popular Music1American Popular MusicTin Pan AlleyCountryAfrican American influencedBluesGospelMotownRapPop/Pock2Common Traits of Popular MusicMusic that is known by a majority of interested pe

2、ople at any given timeSimple and TunefulSingable LyricsRepetitiveThree(or less)chords(typically)Strong Beat and Regular MeterClear Phrases3Measuring a Songs PopularityThenmeasured by sales of sheet musicNowRadio/Jukebox playBillboard MagazineThe Hit Parade Radio Show“Airplay”SalesLPs/45sCassettes/8-

3、TracksCDsDownloads4Colonial American/Pre 20th Century Popular MusicOpera MelodiesScottish and Irish AirsHymnsGerman Art Songs5Songs by Stephen FosterOld Folks at Home(Swanee River)Oh Susanna!My Old Kentucky HomeOld Black JoeJeannie with the Light Brown HairCome Where My Love Lies DesiringBeautiful D

4、reamer6Minstrel ShowsMinstrel SongFirst Distinctive American Music styleLively,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 accurateDrawn from:Popular MusicFolk MusicSongs from Italian OperaEvent

5、ually written by Black ComposersSo it ended up as:Blacks,portraying Whites,who were portraying BlacksPreceded Vaudeville7Vaudeville ShowsSimilar to modern variety shows typically a group of unrelated actsSingersDancersComediansJugglersChild PerformersAnimalsDramatic Sketches8Tin Pan AlleyA place in

6、NYC28th streetTypically in Verse-Chorus formWhere to hear Tin Pan Alley SonsVaudevilleBroadway MusicalsFilmsNightclubsRadio and RecordingsJazz Concerts9Tin Pan Alley NamesComposersJerome KernCole PorterGeorge GershwinIrving BerlinRichard RodgersPerformersAl JolsonEddie CantorRudy ValleeKate SmithPau

7、l WhitemanBing Crosby10Broadway MusicalsA Musical PlayActingSinging(but using vernacular languages)CostumesNational ToursThenStirke Up the BandPorgy and BessWest Side StoryOklahoma!NowThe ProducersSpam-a-lotCatsThe Lion KingPhantom of the Opera11Film and Film Music“born”in 1927The Jazz SingerEnterta

8、inment for the massesTransports the viewer to a different worldSingers who Act(ed)Then Bing CrosbyFrank SinatraBarbra StreisandNowHarry Connick Jr.Lindsay Lohan50 CentIce-T12Radio and RecordingsInvention of the Term“Hit”Folk Styles Now were preservedRecorded specialized categories of musicSold the r

9、ecordings back to the category of people the music came fromFame for Formerly Obscure ArtistsAided the spread of Jazz13Country MusicHillbillyCowboy SongsWestern SwingBluegrassNashville Sound14HillbillyDescribed the poor,illiterate,rural,uneducated southernersViewed as“culturally and musically inferi

10、or”Later it represented wholesome concepts in AmericaPerformersUncle Dave MaconThe Carter FamilyJimmy Rodgers15Cowboy songsDealt with Loneliness and infidelityWhen performed on solo piano:Honky TonkPropelled by the movie industrySinging Cowboys:Gene AutryTex RitterRoy Rogers16BluegrassMountain Music

11、InstrumentsAcoustic GuitarFiddleMandolinBass FiddleBanjoArtists thenBill MonrowLester FlattEarl ScruggsArtists NowAlison KraussNickel CreekNashville Bluegrass Band17The Nashville SoundGrand Ole OpryInfluential from 1957-1971Made Nashville an important city in the American Music IndustryObscured root

12、s of countryMusiciansRoy AcuffChet Atkins18Contemporary CountryHonky-TonkBluegrassCowboy MusicMainstream or Traditional CountryYoung Country Success measured by tours and concerts19Popular Music with African-AmericansMotownGospelRhythm and Blues(R+B)Race RecordsRecorded speciality types of music mar

13、keted for African-AmericansBoogie WoogieSoulAn extension of R+BName changed in 1969 by Billboard magPicked up where Motown left offRockA combination of“Black”music(R+B)and“White”music(C+W)Originally segregated,but Brown v.BOE changed thatRockabilly Southern C+W plus Rock20British InvasionServed most

14、ly Urban WhitesIn England,it is influenced by American R+BEverly BrothersBuddy HollyChuck BerryLittle RichardGroupsThe BeatlesThe Rolling StonesThe WhoPick FloydStrongly Influenced Future Rock Bands21New Technologies Create Rock GenresSound AmplificationStudio ManipulationsSynthesizersMIDISamplingMi

15、xingAcid RockArt RockBlues RockFolk RockGospel RockIndustrial RockNew WavePunkSouthern RockMetal22Rap and Hip-HopEmbraced TechnologySocially AwareLed by Black MalesNew use of the Turntable/Record Player as an instrumentScratchingTurntabalismFrom Urban ArtsStreet PoetryGraffitti“Tagging”Break Dancing23