Music Appreciation - Unit 1 POP music
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
