Tin Pan Alley

How music eras and genres participate in social change and correspond to ideologies through subcultures in the 20th century Research paper Table of Contents Goal of this paper 3 Introduction 3 Social change in modernity 3 Technological development’s impact on music culture 4 Eras of popular music in the 20th century 5 Rock and Roll 5 Pop 7 Beat 8 Rock 9  Goal of this paper In this work I will: - Show, how music eras take place in the context of social change - Present the main genres…

Musicology 123 Paper 1 Starr and Waterman stated that cover songs/cover versions in the postwar era were used to “cash in on the potential popularity of a recording by creating their own (sometimes almost indistinguishable) versions of it.” However, the reason that a musician records a cover song has drastically changed since the late 1940s. Nowadays, musicians record a cover song to pay homage to their favorite musicians and to the musicians that have inspired them. This is exactly why Foo…

Music and society have a large impact on each other, and how they shape the way people view and act in the world. There are four themes that identify and characterize how music has evolved over the past one hundred years. These themes also show how music affects and expresses the culture that not only we live in today, but also how we have changed in our views on numerous aspects of today’s society. The four themes that are explored directly with a specific artist and, or, band are how they…

of teachers, including Henry Cowell, Wallingford Riegger, Edward Kilenyi and Joseph Schillinger. After dropping out of school at the age of 15, Gershwin played in several New York nightclubs and began his stint as a “song-plugger” in New York’s Tin Pan Alley. After three years of…

Through various periods, such as Baroque, Classical, and Romantic Era, classical music has been developed grandly in Europe. Compared to Europe, American music history is short; however, if Europe is where classical music is born and blossomed, America is where popular music has developed in earnest. In the twentieth century, the United States has developed unique genres that could not be found in Europe. This special genre is the jazz that is still playing an important role in American popular…

Jazz music was one of the most popular music genres in the 1920s and 1930s. It started in New Orleans and over the years, stretched out throughout the whole United States. Its popularity brought many people together, even through the years of racial discrimination and the Great Depression. What made jazz continuously popular was the way it progressed. Throughout the years, jazz musicians have created many new styles, new arrangements, and put this genre of music on the map. Over the years, there…

The musical has gone through many changes in its lifetime. Its has been developed, explored and performed in millions of theatres around the world. But what really are the foundations of the art form itself? All of the three elements are really important, but there is one that stands out and has changed the most. That would be the music. The music has served the musical in many ways. It serves the characters extended feelings of fulfillment and gives the audience something to hum out of the…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…