Popular music

for a while and became fascinated with electronic music. By the time I was sixteen, I had started to go to an obscure underground club every Saturday night. I started to smoke and thought I had an opinion about the world around me. I was convinced that having funny hair and liking a certain kind of music gave me an identity, a political view, one that was heavily influenced by my new surroundings. I had started a band which played electronic music, and I wrote lyrics around themes as paying…

Popular music, "music written and marketed with the intention of achieving mass distribution and sales now principally in the form of recordings" (Merriam-Webster.com), played a significant role in the daily life of people of the 20th and 21st centuries. From psychedelic to rock, modern music encompassed it all. As time progressed, the quality and genre adapted to the people 's interests. Some artists decided to go against the grain and change popular music for the better. These five artists-…

In support of this claim, Voegeli Juste-Constant’s article, “Haitian Popular Music in Montreal: The Effects of Acculturation” explores the unique way in which music, seen as a reflection of the Haitian culture, can evolve a community of Canadians and Haitians together through a shared cultural value. The piano-bars are the spaces where this transformation takes place. Juste-Constant affirms, “Haitian popular music has reflected the fortunes of the expatriate Haitian community. On the one hand,…

Coldplay is an influential aspect of American popular music because they originated at an awkward time in musical history and had to find a new direction to go in. In the late 1990s, there were so many different genres and styles of music and Coldplay shaped the way that the new bands would style their music. They also didn't believe in living the Rock ‘n' Roll lifestyle, which made them much better role models for the younger generation than previous popular musicians. Chris Martin said in a…

High School in Los Angeles, California, and went to college at the University of California to study musical composition, but later he dropped out. He started his musical training by writing pop songs. Randy Newman mostly wrote pop songs and film music from the contemporary era. He also loved singing and playing piano. Randy Newman…

1. What is Tin Pan Alley? Where did it originate? Why was it named ‘Tin Pan Alley’? • In the first half of the 20th century, the primary way of selling music was sheet music. Tin Pan Alley was a name given to those who were in the sheet music business: writers and publishers. About a hundred years ago, Tin Pan Alley got its start in New York City. Because of the many song writers plunking out their song ideas on rows of pianos sounded like a bunch of people banging tin cans, the locals began…

David Pichaske’s book titled Generation in Motion: Popular Music and Culture in the Sixties, outline the views of the sixties and how they voiced those views. In the sixties music was the expression of the generation, today I can say that hasn’t changed much. Music today also expresses the political events and views, but also social media is very popular for expression of political views. Today our culture expresses their views through music, similarly to the sixties. In today’s world rap and…

I also have a variety of music tastes. By this I mean that there are many songs I enjoy that come from a variety of genres, but they are usually considered mainstream. Songs I enjoy can come from American pop, hip hop, country, K-pop, punk, classical, and many other genres. My musical journey began with my family. My parents are Chinese who grew up in Vietnam, so I was exposed to Vietnamese children songs from CDs my mom brought from Vietnam and 80s Cantonese pop music my dad played in the car…

Music The Beatles, “shocked the world” with their lyrics although today America has an abundance of uncensored language and context. Companies are striving for profits, while children are the main consumers. Music has become more explicit with music videos, radio and downloadable music displaying explicit behavior. There is evidence that listening to music with sexual content in the lyrics makes youth more likely to start having sex earlier than their peers. (Primack) Many genres such as…

When looking at the past, rock and roll music played a very significant roll in popular culture. Rock influenced daily lives, attitude, and fashion throughout most of the twentieth century. Now, in the twenty first century, rock music is getting pushed out of the mainstream norm and we are switching to hip hop/rap music, especially among today’s youth. This brings a twist in our culture and we can see it by the way it affects the younger people. Rap music, most of the time, features lyrics…