Death of t he o ld i ndustry 1950s Pop Jazz The emergence Of Rock n Roll Tin Pan Alley and The Old Industry Cookie cutter song writing Little celebrity status Geared towards sheet ID: 651530
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Popular MusicSlide2
1950’s
Tin Pan Alley
Death of
t
he
o
ld
i
ndustry
1950’s Pop
Jazz
The emergence Of Rock ‘n’ RollSlide3
Tin Pan Alley and The Old Industry
Cookie cutter song writing
Little celebrity status
Geared towards sheet
m
usic sales
1950’s saw the advent of
r
ecording technology and
d
istribution methods
Popularity of vinyl post WW2
Recovery from Depression Slide4
The Emergence Of Rock ‘n’ Roll
First blues and jazz recordings in 1920’s
Electric guitar created in 1931 (Rickenbacker)
Electric urban blues + a loss of blues
structure + country style
made for early rock ‘n’ roll
Chuck Berry, Little Richard
Elvis, 1953, breaks
cultural barriers Slide5
1960’s
1960’s Rock ‘n’ Roll
The Folk revival
The British Invasion
Motown Slide6
1960’S Rock ‘n’ Roll and The British Invasion
The Beatles and the invention of the modern industry (merchandise, tours, musical careers, full length albums, visuals)
The Rolling Stones
Jimi Hendrix
Globalization and musicSlide7
The Folk Revival
Stretches back to early interest in folk during the Great Depression
Bob Dylan and the creation of modern folk
Joni Mitchel
Neil Young
Blues revival in Northern
United States Slide8
Motown
Song writing team and house band
First all African American music business enterprise/label
Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations
Black reflections of optimistic future Slide9
1970’s
Hard
Rock
Disco
Funk
PunkSlide10
Hard Rock
Reaction to psychedelia, less experimental, more what we associate with Rock ‘n’ Roll
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Aerosmith Slide11
Disco
A reaction to the growing rock driven mainstream
Pop music, meant for dancing in clubs
Favoured by minorities, often sexual and racial (Disco Sucks)Slide12
Funk
An extension of Motown
Further reflects the feelings of
African
Americans in a post civil
Rights era
James Brown, George Clinton
Sly And The Family StoneSlide13
Punk
The Stooges/Iggy Pop
Reaction to the commercialization of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Crossed economic barriers
Questioned if good music had
to be complicated
The Sex Pistols
The Ramones
The GermsSlide14
1980’s
1980’s Hard Rock
Pop
Hip-Hop
PMRCSlide15
Pop and 1980’s Hard Rock
Blockbuster, much like the rest of the
1980’s
Hair/glam metal: bands that truly lived and sung about the mantra “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll”
Guns ‘n’ Roses, Motley Crüe,
Poision
, Van Halen
Pop music took a very electronic approach (heavy use of synthesizers
)Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna Slide16
Hip-Hop
Revival of funk and soul
music through sampling
Started as a largely African American expression of life in cities
New York, Los Angeles
Brought along DJ’s and rapping
Public Enemy, Beastie Boys,
Sugarhill
Gang, RUN DMCSlide17
Parental Music Resource
Centre: PMRC
Formed by Mary “Tipper” Gore in 1985 after she first heard “Darling Nikki” by Prince
Created the parental advisory label against language/explicit content
Commercial censorship: convinced chain stores (
Walmart
) not to sell anything with this sticker, recording labels then tried to encourage artist to write clean music
Attempted to link heavy metal (Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson) to violent
crims
and teenage suicide Slide18
1990’s
Alternative Rock/Grunge
Pop
Boybands
Gangsta RapSlide19
Alternative Rock/Grunge
Built off Punk and alternative rock of 80’s
Reaction to the over the top commercialisation of 1980’s
Focused on the combination of different styles
Grunge: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden
Alternative Rock: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine, Stone Temple Pilots, I Mother EarthSlide20
Pop/Boybands
Pop trend that would continue into the 2000’s and even today
Just as popular as the 1990’s rock
Typically very clean, geared at youth and teenage audiences
Backstreet boys, Spice Girls, Brittany Spears, NSYNCSlide21
Gangsta Rap
Extension of Hip-Hop
Often very explicit
Censorship?
Reflection of lower class
African American lifestyles
in the growing trend of
gangsSlide22
Music As A Cultural Tool
What can we learn by examining music:
Cultural response/reflection: what is going on that the music is coinciding with or proceeding?
Who’s voices are being hear? Who’s aren’t? What narratives are told? What narratives/images sell the most?
What racial and gender issues are at play?
Age of the consumer: who is buying music and what mediums are they choosing?