Music Appreciation - Unit 1 POP music

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Disco

1970s musical genre including groups such as Donna Summer and the Village People

Hair Bands

1980s Rock Bands were known as this because of their look; Bon Jovi and Guns and Roses are examples

Talkies Film Star

Al Jolson

Roaring 20s

American culture and society during this time were marked by a wave of new lifestyles and ideas. While the movie industry produced new celebrities and jazz music became popular, literature flourished and flappers defined a social trend. Amidst the speakeasies, jazz, and jitterbugs, Americans began to stray from traditional values as the culture changed.

1990s Pop

Boy Bands and Grunge

1960s Pop

British Invasion and Bubble Gum

Beat Bands

British Invasion groups like the Beatles with a strong driving rhythm; music from these groups is great for dancing

R and B Bands

British Invasion groups like the Rolling Stones with a strong African American influence on their sound; these groups had a soul and a passion

Conventional Bands

British Invasion performers like Petula Clark with references to and sounds of the English Country Side; simple and gentle music

Silent Film Star

Charlie Chaplin

1970s Pop

Disco and Punk

1920s Pop

Family Friendly

1980s Pop

MTV and Hair Bands

Michael Jackson

MTV performer who lead the way to more African Americans having their music played on MTV

Talkies

Motion pictures with sound. The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first movie to use sound in a significant way.

Grunge Rock

Musical style that emerged from Seattle in the 1980s and 1990s blending heavy metal guitar textures with hardcore punk; Nirvana

YouTube record

PSY and his hit Gangnam Style; first to reach 1 billion views

1940s Pop

Patriotic and Race Records

December 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor attack

Race Records

Recordings of performances by African American musicians produced for African American listeners.

90s Bubble Gum Pop

Rise in Boy Bands; not necessarily family groups

1950s Pop

Rock and Roll, Crooners and Doo Wop

1930s Pop

Swing

Movies of the 1930s

Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind

2000s Pop

YouTube Generation

60s Bubble Gum Pop

associated with pre teens, ('tweens) and young teenagers; silly, quirky songs; Sugar, Sugar is an example

27 Club

famous musicians that mysteriously die at the age of 27; Kurt Cobain

David Bowie

famous punk rocker; died 2016

Silent Films

films that were black and white and mainly acted out or pantomimed; pianist/organist played a soundtrack in the back of the theater

Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star"

first video to be played on MTV

Doo-Wop

genre of music that was developed in African-American communities (front porches) in the late 1940s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s and features vocal group harmony and nonsense syllables (where it gets its name).

Crooners

new type of radio singers who stood close to mic, sang softly/yearningly, held long notes and showed off using trills. Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Michael Bublé.

Benny Goodman

popularized swing music (known as the "King of Swing"); his music encouraged a more energetic dancing and he created one of the first racially integrated bands

Riffs

repeated patterns/progressions on a guitar; Chuck Berry used these in almost all of his songs

Andrews Sisters

song Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy...Singing Sisters popular during WW2; raised patriotism throughout America

British Invasion

started in 1964 when the Beatles came to America; revolution in rock music

Great Depression

starting with collapse of the US stock market in 1929, period of worldwide economic stagnation. Heavy borrowing by European nations from USA during WW1 contributed to instability in European economies.

Length of Pop Song

to get radio play, song must be between 2.5 and 5.5 in length


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