Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Chapter 15
In 2003-2004 Outkast was topped the billboard charts for nine weeks with Hey Ya!. Maria Carey’s We Belong Together was at number one for fourteen weeks in 2005. Lady Gaga’s Hit Pokerface was a number one hit for seven weeks in 2009. Bruno Mars had the biggest selling single of 2012 with Just the Way You Are. The 2000 were filled with a new artist that used many techniques to get the audience to respond to their music.
The roles of race and ethnic city and American music must be situated within the broader context. The very fact that Americans speak a black-and-white music as though these were self-evident. Colombian, Shakira whose first bilingual album laundry Service reached number three on the charts in the United States. Sexuality and gender are other aspects of identity that are central to the history of American popular music. Even top 10 singles like the village people YMCA and in the Navy which can be interpreted on one level as a defying out of the closet celebration of gay culture. Pop stars including Little Richard, David Bowie, Prince, Madonna and then the 2000s, Lady Gaga have faction personas the same purposefully to blur the public perceptions of their sexual orientation.
Music recording process of reproduction is an emanation of sound comes from the phonograph, the radio, the electric microphone and sound found. Later through magnetic takes a long playing this FM radio and they innovations of the 70s 80s and 90s with home video, cable television, portable tape players, Digital recording, the compact disc, the iPod and the iPhone, and the Internet is also saw the introduction of music production software such as ProTools which a person could record their own album at home.
First Grammy awards to any rock band Death Cab for Cutie protested against the use processing devices such as AutoTune family had as a threat that the artist would have no real character. AutoTune would be used to change voice to enhance the song or tune the voice. Many artists do not like AutoTune they think it alters the authentic live performance.
Medium associated with the Internet is the MP3, a digital file compression system that was originally used to develop digital video disk (DVD). What the introduction of MP3 technology expert a series of struggles between the entertainment corporations and small-scale entrepreneurs. In 1999 and 18-year-old college dropout named Sean fanning had developed Napster an Internet-based software program that I like computer users to share swap files specifically, music through centralizes file servers
Thousand one Apple computers would introduce the first generation iPod player which store up to 1000 CD-quality tracks on its hard drive. Into thousand three the iTunes Store was launched, making some 200,000 tracks available for download for $.99 apiece. iTunes company commanded 70% of online markets by 2008 and he become the top seller of music in the United States.
Into thousand three but lots of MySpace, social networking site hey created more than 100 million subscribers including thousands of musicians who made the recordings available on their MySpace pages. The first video to Pat was a party dance video called Megan Waze by a Chicago-based rock band and 2005. Lady Gaga would start her career on social media and through YouTube. Andrew thousand 12 the South Korea pop star PSY scored a massive it with his video Gangnam Style which had received 8 million views within its first two weeks of posting.
During 2000, Tori had become increasingly important to the total profits generated by music business rather than sideline designed to promote record sales. Buy 2006 concert tour revenues from popular music including the sale merchandise exceeded $3.5 billion worldwide.
The roles of race and ethnic city and American music must be situated within the broader context. The very fact that Americans speak a black-and-white music as though these were self-evident. Colombian, Shakira whose first bilingual album laundry Service reached number three on the charts in the United States. Sexuality and gender are other aspects of identity that are central to the history of American popular music. Even top 10 singles like the village people YMCA and in the Navy which can be interpreted on one level as a defying out of the closet celebration of gay culture. Pop stars including Little Richard, David Bowie, Prince, Madonna and then the 2000s, Lady Gaga have faction personas the same purposefully to blur the public perceptions of their sexual orientation.
Music recording process of reproduction is an emanation of sound comes from the phonograph, the radio, the electric microphone and sound found. Later through magnetic takes a long playing this FM radio and they innovations of the 70s 80s and 90s with home video, cable television, portable tape players, Digital recording, the compact disc, the iPod and the iPhone, and the Internet is also saw the introduction of music production software such as ProTools which a person could record their own album at home.
First Grammy awards to any rock band Death Cab for Cutie protested against the use processing devices such as AutoTune family had as a threat that the artist would have no real character. AutoTune would be used to change voice to enhance the song or tune the voice. Many artists do not like AutoTune they think it alters the authentic live performance.
Medium associated with the Internet is the MP3, a digital file compression system that was originally used to develop digital video disk (DVD). What the introduction of MP3 technology expert a series of struggles between the entertainment corporations and small-scale entrepreneurs. In 1999 and 18-year-old college dropout named Sean fanning had developed Napster an Internet-based software program that I like computer users to share swap files specifically, music through centralizes file servers
Thousand one Apple computers would introduce the first generation iPod player which store up to 1000 CD-quality tracks on its hard drive. Into thousand three the iTunes Store was launched, making some 200,000 tracks available for download for $.99 apiece. iTunes company commanded 70% of online markets by 2008 and he become the top seller of music in the United States.
Into thousand three but lots of MySpace, social networking site hey created more than 100 million subscribers including thousands of musicians who made the recordings available on their MySpace pages. The first video to Pat was a party dance video called Megan Waze by a Chicago-based rock band and 2005. Lady Gaga would start her career on social media and through YouTube. Andrew thousand 12 the South Korea pop star PSY scored a massive it with his video Gangnam Style which had received 8 million views within its first two weeks of posting.
During 2000, Tori had become increasingly important to the total profits generated by music business rather than sideline designed to promote record sales. Buy 2006 concert tour revenues from popular music including the sale merchandise exceeded $3.5 billion worldwide.
Hey Ya!
We Belong togather
Pokerface
YMCA
Just the Way You Are
Gangnam Style
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Listening Journal Chapter 13 & 14
Chapters 13 & 14
At the start of the 1980s, there were new forms of entertainment, which included home video, cable television, and video games. Personal boom boxes which tapes that could record a song off the radio were popular. Also for the first time tapes surpassed the record. The 80’s also saw the rise of new technology with the compact disk (CD) and in 1988 CD’s would surpass records.
In 1981, MTV would change the way that music industry operated. MTV became the way a new artist would be introduced to their listening audience. More than 750 videos were shown in the first eighteen months of MTV being on the air. The move toward global corporate consolidation of music changed the marketplace for popular music. This caused a creation for new genres, marketing categories, and radio formats.
Digital recording replaced analog recording which broken the song down into a series of 0 and 1’s. The sound of the Hammond B-3 organ became popular in R&B and jazz for its rich fat sound. Digital samplers were introduced in 1984 by Enqsoniq, they would allow the creator to make a loop or create a repeated sounds. Also during this time drum machines were used for sampling with used of MIDI technology that were used by rap artist and dance music during the 1980’s.
Michael Jackson worked with veteran producer Quincy Jones to create an album that achieved boundary-crossing popularity. The success of Thriller had achieved the goal that his old boss Gordy Berry worked for in Motown. The album contained Beat it which was a gesture to heavy metal bands. Jackson’s would score seven top ten hits and thriller would sell over two million copies.
Bruce Springsteen continued with the rock tradition of the rebelliousness of rock ‘n’ roll. Springsteen’s success with Born in the U.S.A would pack stadiums on a tour through the country. The album followed Michael Jackson’s thriller and sold over 15 million copies. Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen filmed videos for each song on their albums to promote on MTV.
Paul Simon already found success being a part of the popular singing duo Simon and Garfunkel. Simon would create one of the great world albums called Graceland. The album was recorded in five different locations and was a great success. He would use popular Latin American band Los Lobos and Louisiana zydeco band Good Rockin’ Dopsie and the Twisters to create his music.
Madonna became very popular in the time periods between 1984-1994 she would have eight top ten hits. These included the successful Like a Virgin, True Blue and Like a prayer. She was also a purposeful controversial figure and a has strongly polarized reactions from listeners. Like other artist of the 1980’s she used MTV to publicize her music and expander her image to the public. She continued her success in the 90’s and 2000’s.
Prince would have nine albums in the top ten between 1982 and 1992. With his hits Purple Rain, Around the world in a Day and Batman he would connect with the listeners. One of the first things that strike the listener about Prince’s career is his productivity. Prince’s records had a variety of musical inspiration from funk, guitar based rock ‘n’ roll, urban folk, new wave, jazz and psychedelic rock. His music would also receive criticism from well know televangelist about it being evil which created more appeal to the young listeners. Prince also stared in a Purple Rain a movie that closely mirrored his life.
The 1990’s music artists would be varied with adult contemporary artist Celine Dion, Janet Jackson, and Maria Carey. Country music stars Clint Black, Reba McEntire, Shania Twain, and Garth Brooks. R&B artist BoysIImen and gangsta rappers Snoop Doggy Dog, Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. Hard rock and heavy metal bands Aerosmith and Metallica. Alternative rock bands Nirvana, Pear Jam, Alanis Morissette, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
In the 1990’s the single continued to shrink but many artists found success with the singles. Elton John would have a hit single with Candle in the wind and a dance craze called the Macarena swept the nation in 1996. Hip-Hop also found fame in the 90’s with Run D.M.C. album Rising Hell. Run D.M.C. was the most influential act in the history of rap music. In the tradition of socially engage rap was from a New York-based group Public Enemy founded in 1982. The groups members Flavor Flav, Chuck D, Terminator X, Professor Griff would create breakthrough albums in rap with their second album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
M.C. Hammer offered pop-friendly styles of rap while rapper Vanilla would chart the maintained the number one position on the billboard 200 pop album charts. There would be many rap artist that would find fame in the 1990’s, Ice Cube, N.W.A, Ice-T, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E. The Chronicle an album made by Dr. Dre and introduced Snoop Doggy Dog sold three million copies. Death row records recorded upcoming rap stars 2Pac, Sean “puffy’ Combs, and Notorious B.I.G.
Queen Latifah and Salt N Pepa became the world first female hip hop stars. They would use their music to empower women and provide an alternative to gangsta rap. Queen Latifah would reach number one with U.N.I.T.Y and Salt n Pepa had success with Push it and other hits. Techno music was music made for dance clubs or raves and the youth-obsessed culture. Orb, Orbital, Prodigy, and Moby were solo acts for their genre.
In the 1990s, alternative rock became popular with the nation. REM, Sonic Youth were influenced by the New York punk scene. Nirvana a trio centered around its guitarist Kurt Cobain, Krist Noveselic and later Dave Grohl would have a chart hit with the album Nevermind. The album had mass appeal from many fans of other genres of music. Their next album Utero became number one in 1993 and sold 4 million copies.
Ani DiFranco would be a folk singer in punk rock clothing. Ani became successful on a small label and has a wide range of fans. Lauryn Hill is Hip-Hop star that has worked with Dr. Dre and other popular rap artists. Hill also was committed to female empowerment. K.D. Lang is a country star is known for her Patsy Cline style and rhinestone outfits. In the 1988 Shadowland and 1989 Absolute Torch and Twang, Lang music was more traditional honky tonk. She won the best female vocalist grammy after her first appearance on the county top 40 charts.
County stars George Strait, Alan Jackson, and Toby Keith demonstrated the traditions in country music. Taylor Swift became a teen idol and pop phenomenon for her music and the way the music related to her audience. Gretchen Wilson displayed her strength with her debut hit Redneck Woman. Gloria Estefan and Selena shared the same ambition to reach the broadest audience possible. Estefan has sold over 90 million albums worldwide and her performances are geared toward international Latin audiences. Selena did not get the chance to reach the audience that she had wanted because a fan club manager shot her. Selena won a grammy for the album Amor Prohibition.
Talking Timbuktu was produced by the singer Ry Cooter and won a Grammy for best world album in 1996. Alin Farka Toure would be featured on the album he was a guitarist, traditional praise singer from Mali.
At the start of the 1980s, there were new forms of entertainment, which included home video, cable television, and video games. Personal boom boxes which tapes that could record a song off the radio were popular. Also for the first time tapes surpassed the record. The 80’s also saw the rise of new technology with the compact disk (CD) and in 1988 CD’s would surpass records.
In 1981, MTV would change the way that music industry operated. MTV became the way a new artist would be introduced to their listening audience. More than 750 videos were shown in the first eighteen months of MTV being on the air. The move toward global corporate consolidation of music changed the marketplace for popular music. This caused a creation for new genres, marketing categories, and radio formats.
Digital recording replaced analog recording which broken the song down into a series of 0 and 1’s. The sound of the Hammond B-3 organ became popular in R&B and jazz for its rich fat sound. Digital samplers were introduced in 1984 by Enqsoniq, they would allow the creator to make a loop or create a repeated sounds. Also during this time drum machines were used for sampling with used of MIDI technology that were used by rap artist and dance music during the 1980’s.
Michael Jackson worked with veteran producer Quincy Jones to create an album that achieved boundary-crossing popularity. The success of Thriller had achieved the goal that his old boss Gordy Berry worked for in Motown. The album contained Beat it which was a gesture to heavy metal bands. Jackson’s would score seven top ten hits and thriller would sell over two million copies.
Bruce Springsteen continued with the rock tradition of the rebelliousness of rock ‘n’ roll. Springsteen’s success with Born in the U.S.A would pack stadiums on a tour through the country. The album followed Michael Jackson’s thriller and sold over 15 million copies. Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen filmed videos for each song on their albums to promote on MTV.
Paul Simon already found success being a part of the popular singing duo Simon and Garfunkel. Simon would create one of the great world albums called Graceland. The album was recorded in five different locations and was a great success. He would use popular Latin American band Los Lobos and Louisiana zydeco band Good Rockin’ Dopsie and the Twisters to create his music.
Madonna became very popular in the time periods between 1984-1994 she would have eight top ten hits. These included the successful Like a Virgin, True Blue and Like a prayer. She was also a purposeful controversial figure and a has strongly polarized reactions from listeners. Like other artist of the 1980’s she used MTV to publicize her music and expander her image to the public. She continued her success in the 90’s and 2000’s.
Prince would have nine albums in the top ten between 1982 and 1992. With his hits Purple Rain, Around the world in a Day and Batman he would connect with the listeners. One of the first things that strike the listener about Prince’s career is his productivity. Prince’s records had a variety of musical inspiration from funk, guitar based rock ‘n’ roll, urban folk, new wave, jazz and psychedelic rock. His music would also receive criticism from well know televangelist about it being evil which created more appeal to the young listeners. Prince also stared in a Purple Rain a movie that closely mirrored his life.
The 1990’s music artists would be varied with adult contemporary artist Celine Dion, Janet Jackson, and Maria Carey. Country music stars Clint Black, Reba McEntire, Shania Twain, and Garth Brooks. R&B artist BoysIImen and gangsta rappers Snoop Doggy Dog, Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. Hard rock and heavy metal bands Aerosmith and Metallica. Alternative rock bands Nirvana, Pear Jam, Alanis Morissette, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
In the 1990’s the single continued to shrink but many artists found success with the singles. Elton John would have a hit single with Candle in the wind and a dance craze called the Macarena swept the nation in 1996. Hip-Hop also found fame in the 90’s with Run D.M.C. album Rising Hell. Run D.M.C. was the most influential act in the history of rap music. In the tradition of socially engage rap was from a New York-based group Public Enemy founded in 1982. The groups members Flavor Flav, Chuck D, Terminator X, Professor Griff would create breakthrough albums in rap with their second album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
M.C. Hammer offered pop-friendly styles of rap while rapper Vanilla would chart the maintained the number one position on the billboard 200 pop album charts. There would be many rap artist that would find fame in the 1990’s, Ice Cube, N.W.A, Ice-T, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E. The Chronicle an album made by Dr. Dre and introduced Snoop Doggy Dog sold three million copies. Death row records recorded upcoming rap stars 2Pac, Sean “puffy’ Combs, and Notorious B.I.G.
Queen Latifah and Salt N Pepa became the world first female hip hop stars. They would use their music to empower women and provide an alternative to gangsta rap. Queen Latifah would reach number one with U.N.I.T.Y and Salt n Pepa had success with Push it and other hits. Techno music was music made for dance clubs or raves and the youth-obsessed culture. Orb, Orbital, Prodigy, and Moby were solo acts for their genre.
In the 1990s, alternative rock became popular with the nation. REM, Sonic Youth were influenced by the New York punk scene. Nirvana a trio centered around its guitarist Kurt Cobain, Krist Noveselic and later Dave Grohl would have a chart hit with the album Nevermind. The album had mass appeal from many fans of other genres of music. Their next album Utero became number one in 1993 and sold 4 million copies.
Ani DiFranco would be a folk singer in punk rock clothing. Ani became successful on a small label and has a wide range of fans. Lauryn Hill is Hip-Hop star that has worked with Dr. Dre and other popular rap artists. Hill also was committed to female empowerment. K.D. Lang is a country star is known for her Patsy Cline style and rhinestone outfits. In the 1988 Shadowland and 1989 Absolute Torch and Twang, Lang music was more traditional honky tonk. She won the best female vocalist grammy after her first appearance on the county top 40 charts.
County stars George Strait, Alan Jackson, and Toby Keith demonstrated the traditions in country music. Taylor Swift became a teen idol and pop phenomenon for her music and the way the music related to her audience. Gretchen Wilson displayed her strength with her debut hit Redneck Woman. Gloria Estefan and Selena shared the same ambition to reach the broadest audience possible. Estefan has sold over 90 million albums worldwide and her performances are geared toward international Latin audiences. Selena did not get the chance to reach the audience that she had wanted because a fan club manager shot her. Selena won a grammy for the album Amor Prohibition.
Talking Timbuktu was produced by the singer Ry Cooter and won a Grammy for best world album in 1996. Alin Farka Toure would be featured on the album he was a guitarist, traditional praise singer from Mali.
Thriller
Born in the USA
Diamonds on the Souls Her Shoes
True Blue
Purple Rain
UNITY
Push It
Nirvana
KD Lang Unplugged
Redneck Woman
Gloria Estefan
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Music Listening Journal, Chapters 11 & 12
Chapters 11 & 12
This weeks reading come from chapters 11 and 12. The 1970’s saw a turning inward of American culture. Americans also became weary of the war in Vietnam. This would cause a more conservative turn from the hippie dress and slang that was a major part of American. Music has begun to enter the cultural mainstream with radio, television and movies. The national would also embrace the nostalgia of the 1950’s with Grease and American Graffiti in the movie theaters and Happy Days playing on television.
During the 1970’s the music industry changed into six corporations that made up for 80 percent of record sales. With this success there came a risk as few artist were selling millions of records the record companies depended on the success of theses artist. Many FM stations were also moving from the top 40 formats seen on the AM stations to an album-oriented rock program. In the 70’s radios would also gain the first oldies stations playing the hit of the 50’s and 60’s.
In 1974, the Grand Ole Opry would move into a state of the art facility. That would not be the only change in country music. Artist starred in their own shows The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, the Johnny Cash Show, and Hee-Haw entertained viewers around the country. The country also had crossover success into the pop charts with John Denver, Glen Campbell, and C.W. McCall. The country also introduced Dolly Parton and Olivia Newton-John both had major success on both country and pop charts.
Pop and soft rock were designed to appeal to widest possible demographic. This included musicians Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Pink Floyd, Paul Simon, Neil Diamond, Crosby, Still and Nash, the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, and Santana would all fall in the category of rock.
British rock bands break world records with live performances. This caused other bands to spring up in the early 1970’s. Styx, Journey, Kansas, REO Speedwagon, ZZ Top, and Rush tailored their performances to live stages. Tommy the rock opera by the Who became a success due to the work being unified and thematic. Some rock bands would take months to work on these albums. Good headphones and high-fidelity systems could also place the listener into the middle of theses new unified albums.
Some rock albums used fiction to get their message to the listener. This was the case with David Bowies, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. Bowie made said, “I packaged a totally credible plastic rock star”. This coincided with his tour, which was a theatrical tour de force. There were other stars that didn’t not have a common theme through their albums. Joni Mitchell wrote songs about the complexity of love. The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd brought time, work, money, war and a fear of death into their music. Pink Floyd is still a popular group with listeners today.
Marvin Gaye took the emotions of Vietnam War and put that powerful feeling in his album What’s Going On. Even though this album was political it was a commercial success even though Berry Gordy did not see this in the album. Art rock became Emerson, Lake and Palmers success with the live album Pictures at Exhibition. This piece contained structural elements from the composer Modest Musorgsky. The Rolling Stones recorded their best album Exile on Main Street in 1972. It would be recorded in Keith Richards home and the band member use of drugs and alcohol was so intense that they wondered how the album got made.
The Allman Brothers band would represent the southern rock sound. They would combine southern folk music, with African American traditions to make their sound. This paved the way for the Marshall Tucker Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the Charlie Daniels Band. In expressing pride, many southern rock bands, intentionally or unintentionally, presented a view of how the south was, this was insensitive to African-American history and at worst racist.
Jazz-rock was collaborations between rock and jazz. Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago were a combination of the harmony and complexity of improvisations. Miles David also released Bitches Brew in 1970 and served as inspiration for many Jazz –rock artist. Chicago would hone its music at the Whiskey A Go-Go in Los Angles. 25 or 6 to 4 was the highest chart topper for Chicago.
The disco era was from 1975 – 1980 and represented a popular alternative to rock. This era was also against the idea of album record or art records. The records that disco artist created were for the dance floor. This era also had a major effect on performing musicians, as more clubs would use DJ’s over live musicians. Disco can largely that its success to the film Saturday Night Fever. The films album had many popular songs from the soundtrack including Staying Alive and Night Fever. Rick Dees scored a major hit with the goofy song Disco Duck. Disco was unpopular with some people linking its unpopularity with a dislike of the gay culture. The initial rejection of disco by many rock fans many have had as much to do with racism as with homophobia.
Progressive country got it inspiration from honky-tonk and rockabilly amalgam of Bakersfield country music. Artist Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Tom T. Hall and Townes Van Zandt were not polished singers but would become popular musicians. Willie Nelson came to fame in the mid-1970’s with his group called the Outlaws. Willies album the Red-headed Stranger sold two million copies in 1975.
Reggae mixed Caribbean Folk Music with American rhythms and blues. Jimmy Cliff became popular in the United States in 1973 with the release of The Harder The Come. Dance bands would replace the roots of reggae music called mento in the 40’s and 50’s. The Rastafarian movement gave reggae more notice. The heart of reggae music consists of “riddims”, interlocking rhythmic patterns that are performed by guitar, bass, and Drums. Bob Marley is reggae most well-known musician with his song Stir it Up. He is also known for the cover I Shot the Sheriff by Eric Clapton.
The rise of salsa music also appeared during the 1970’s it was intense, passionate, and rhythmic flow made it popular dance music. In 1973, Tito Puente packed Yankee Stadium with fans that wanted to hear salsa music. Eddie Palmieri and Willie Colon brought a new style to salsa from Puerto Rico. Pedro Navaja became a popular with Palmieri and Colon’s audiences.
Punk Rock and new wave music would bring rebellion back to rock. Punk rock was a cultural style and was a rejection of middle-class values. This was seen in the Ramones 1978 recording “I’m Against it”. Punk music was stripped-down and often non-purposeful version of rock. One the predecessors or punk was the garage band. The New York Dolls formed in 1971 and wore glam clothing that was refined by gender-bending David Bowie. The Sex Pistols and the Clash became a blueprint for hardcore bands in Los Angles. The Talking heads formed in 1974 with David Byrne and broken into the top 100 on the billboard charts. Even though the talking heads were popular they never achieved a number one hit.
Funk music was based on the impulse to dance. Funk groups Kool and The Gang and the Ohio Players scored number one hits during the 1970’s. James Brown was the inspiration for many of the funk musicians. Sly and the Family Stone recorded a series of albums and singles that topped the pop and soul charts. Their biggest hit was in 1971 with Family Affair. George Clinton took on racial and musical stereotypes with his reconfiguration of black popular music as a positive moral force. Give Up the Funk was Parliament’s biggest crossover hit from the LP Mothership Connection.
Rap has been transformed from a local phenomenon based in a few neighborhoods in New York City to a multimillion-dollar industry. Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and Afrika Bambaataa would begin their careers as DJ’s spinning for neighborhood block parties. The disco DJ’s technique of mixing with a smooth transition with two records would mastered by Kool Herc known as the back spin. Raps or toast would be verbal performance based on trickster talks of West Africa. In 1979, hip-hop no longer would be a local phenomenon. Rappers Delight recorded by the Sugar Hill Gang ushered the age of hip-hop into American homes.
This weeks reading come from chapters 11 and 12. The 1970’s saw a turning inward of American culture. Americans also became weary of the war in Vietnam. This would cause a more conservative turn from the hippie dress and slang that was a major part of American. Music has begun to enter the cultural mainstream with radio, television and movies. The national would also embrace the nostalgia of the 1950’s with Grease and American Graffiti in the movie theaters and Happy Days playing on television.
During the 1970’s the music industry changed into six corporations that made up for 80 percent of record sales. With this success there came a risk as few artist were selling millions of records the record companies depended on the success of theses artist. Many FM stations were also moving from the top 40 formats seen on the AM stations to an album-oriented rock program. In the 70’s radios would also gain the first oldies stations playing the hit of the 50’s and 60’s.
In 1974, the Grand Ole Opry would move into a state of the art facility. That would not be the only change in country music. Artist starred in their own shows The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, the Johnny Cash Show, and Hee-Haw entertained viewers around the country. The country also had crossover success into the pop charts with John Denver, Glen Campbell, and C.W. McCall. The country also introduced Dolly Parton and Olivia Newton-John both had major success on both country and pop charts.
Pop and soft rock were designed to appeal to widest possible demographic. This included musicians Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Pink Floyd, Paul Simon, Neil Diamond, Crosby, Still and Nash, the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, and Santana would all fall in the category of rock.
British rock bands break world records with live performances. This caused other bands to spring up in the early 1970’s. Styx, Journey, Kansas, REO Speedwagon, ZZ Top, and Rush tailored their performances to live stages. Tommy the rock opera by the Who became a success due to the work being unified and thematic. Some rock bands would take months to work on these albums. Good headphones and high-fidelity systems could also place the listener into the middle of theses new unified albums.
Some rock albums used fiction to get their message to the listener. This was the case with David Bowies, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. Bowie made said, “I packaged a totally credible plastic rock star”. This coincided with his tour, which was a theatrical tour de force. There were other stars that didn’t not have a common theme through their albums. Joni Mitchell wrote songs about the complexity of love. The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd brought time, work, money, war and a fear of death into their music. Pink Floyd is still a popular group with listeners today.
Marvin Gaye took the emotions of Vietnam War and put that powerful feeling in his album What’s Going On. Even though this album was political it was a commercial success even though Berry Gordy did not see this in the album. Art rock became Emerson, Lake and Palmers success with the live album Pictures at Exhibition. This piece contained structural elements from the composer Modest Musorgsky. The Rolling Stones recorded their best album Exile on Main Street in 1972. It would be recorded in Keith Richards home and the band member use of drugs and alcohol was so intense that they wondered how the album got made.
The Allman Brothers band would represent the southern rock sound. They would combine southern folk music, with African American traditions to make their sound. This paved the way for the Marshall Tucker Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the Charlie Daniels Band. In expressing pride, many southern rock bands, intentionally or unintentionally, presented a view of how the south was, this was insensitive to African-American history and at worst racist.
Jazz-rock was collaborations between rock and jazz. Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago were a combination of the harmony and complexity of improvisations. Miles David also released Bitches Brew in 1970 and served as inspiration for many Jazz –rock artist. Chicago would hone its music at the Whiskey A Go-Go in Los Angles. 25 or 6 to 4 was the highest chart topper for Chicago.
The disco era was from 1975 – 1980 and represented a popular alternative to rock. This era was also against the idea of album record or art records. The records that disco artist created were for the dance floor. This era also had a major effect on performing musicians, as more clubs would use DJ’s over live musicians. Disco can largely that its success to the film Saturday Night Fever. The films album had many popular songs from the soundtrack including Staying Alive and Night Fever. Rick Dees scored a major hit with the goofy song Disco Duck. Disco was unpopular with some people linking its unpopularity with a dislike of the gay culture. The initial rejection of disco by many rock fans many have had as much to do with racism as with homophobia.
Progressive country got it inspiration from honky-tonk and rockabilly amalgam of Bakersfield country music. Artist Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Tom T. Hall and Townes Van Zandt were not polished singers but would become popular musicians. Willie Nelson came to fame in the mid-1970’s with his group called the Outlaws. Willies album the Red-headed Stranger sold two million copies in 1975.
Reggae mixed Caribbean Folk Music with American rhythms and blues. Jimmy Cliff became popular in the United States in 1973 with the release of The Harder The Come. Dance bands would replace the roots of reggae music called mento in the 40’s and 50’s. The Rastafarian movement gave reggae more notice. The heart of reggae music consists of “riddims”, interlocking rhythmic patterns that are performed by guitar, bass, and Drums. Bob Marley is reggae most well-known musician with his song Stir it Up. He is also known for the cover I Shot the Sheriff by Eric Clapton.
The rise of salsa music also appeared during the 1970’s it was intense, passionate, and rhythmic flow made it popular dance music. In 1973, Tito Puente packed Yankee Stadium with fans that wanted to hear salsa music. Eddie Palmieri and Willie Colon brought a new style to salsa from Puerto Rico. Pedro Navaja became a popular with Palmieri and Colon’s audiences.
Punk Rock and new wave music would bring rebellion back to rock. Punk rock was a cultural style and was a rejection of middle-class values. This was seen in the Ramones 1978 recording “I’m Against it”. Punk music was stripped-down and often non-purposeful version of rock. One the predecessors or punk was the garage band. The New York Dolls formed in 1971 and wore glam clothing that was refined by gender-bending David Bowie. The Sex Pistols and the Clash became a blueprint for hardcore bands in Los Angles. The Talking heads formed in 1974 with David Byrne and broken into the top 100 on the billboard charts. Even though the talking heads were popular they never achieved a number one hit.
Funk music was based on the impulse to dance. Funk groups Kool and The Gang and the Ohio Players scored number one hits during the 1970’s. James Brown was the inspiration for many of the funk musicians. Sly and the Family Stone recorded a series of albums and singles that topped the pop and soul charts. Their biggest hit was in 1971 with Family Affair. George Clinton took on racial and musical stereotypes with his reconfiguration of black popular music as a positive moral force. Give Up the Funk was Parliament’s biggest crossover hit from the LP Mothership Connection.
Rap has been transformed from a local phenomenon based in a few neighborhoods in New York City to a multimillion-dollar industry. Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and Afrika Bambaataa would begin their careers as DJ’s spinning for neighborhood block parties. The disco DJ’s technique of mixing with a smooth transition with two records would mastered by Kool Herc known as the back spin. Raps or toast would be verbal performance based on trickster talks of West Africa. In 1979, hip-hop no longer would be a local phenomenon. Rappers Delight recorded by the Sugar Hill Gang ushered the age of hip-hop into American homes.
Coat of Many Colors
I Honestly Love You
Homeward Bound
Frank Zappa at the Roxy Theater
Kansas
Waiting For the Bus/ Jesus Just Left Chicago
Help Me
Dark Side of the Moon
What's Going On
Ramblin Man
I Love you more than you will ever know
Staying Alive
Disco Duck
Red Headed Stranger
Tito Puente's Golden Latin Jazz All Stars
The KKK Took my Baby Away
Talking Heads 77
Fire
We Want the Funk
The Message
Rappers Delight
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Music Listening Journal, Chapters 9 & 10
Music Listening Journal, Chapters 9 & 10
The 1960’s would be a violent decade that was seen as disruptive and controversial. Baby boomers had a vital role in the political and cultural events in the 60’s. During their time, Rock ‘N’ Roll developed into rock. The decade started with the cowboy ballad El Paso by Marty Robbins this showed a slight pull to country music during this decade.
Dances that were a part of songs written about them became very popular. The Twist was written by Hank Ballad using a twelve bar blues. This did not become a hit for his group, but it became a major hit for Chubby Checker. The twist was not the free-form dance but signaled a change in the popular dance movement. There were other dances that were popularized by song the pony, the mashed potatoes, the monkey, and countless other dances developed. Theses dances appeared on American Bandstand and other programs that brought the music of the 1960’s and the dances that accompanied the music into American homes. Rock ‘N’ Roll music became the music of the liberated. This could be seen in the go-go dancers of the 60’s.
Songwriters also emerged during Carol King wrote The Loco-motion for her baby sitter, Little Eva. Phil Spector would have a hit with his song To Know Him is to Love him. Spector became more known for his music business and how he shaped the sounds of records that audiences came to enjoy. Part of the characteristic of his music was the “wall of sound” these records became known as teen-age symphonies. One of his groups The Drifters sang Save the Last Dance and Up on the Roof that became chart-toppers.
Berry Gordy Jr. became known for his songwriting/producing and marketing organization. Overall he became know for creating Motown-based in Detroit. Even through Motown had some of the great black musicians Gordy did not make music for only black listeners. He would be unapologetic in his goal of making the music available to all listeners. The Supremes and The Temptations became better known than the Crystals or the Ronettes. Motown artist would also break away from their groups and have great success. Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross were able to gain recognition away from their groups. Motown became know as Hitsville USA, which Gordy named. Motown produced Martha and the Vandellas, Junior Walker, and the All Stars, the Four Seasons, Gladys Knight and Pips, and the Jackson Five.
Bryan Wilson formed the Beach Boys with his two brothers and his cousin in Hawthorne, California. Wilson was a singer, songwriter, arranger, and producers. Wilson captured the sound of southern California and the surf and sun. Wilson would achieve international acclaim as a studio wizard. This was seen in Surfing USA the Beach Boys first number one hit.
In 1964, the Beetles had a chart-topper in America with I Want to Hold Your Hand. With the success of this song and others would spark Beatlemania. George Martin was seen as the fifth Beetle for his role in the recording studio. This marked a change not only for the music in America but also for the nation with the election of John F. Kennedy. Their success could be seen as an America asking for change. There would be countless British bands in the 1960’s that influenced the British Invasion of music.
Concept albums were conceived as integrated whole this could be seen in Pet Sounds. This album was a great influence on the Beatles 1967 album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts club band. Brian Wilson also took inspiration for 1966 single Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys.
Latin soul pushed its way on the charts with Herby Hancock’s Watermelon Man in 1963 which stayed on the charts for eleven weeks for Ramon “Mongo” Santamaria. Ray Barretto would have a hit on the R&B and pop charts with his mambo band with EL Watusi. The Bossa Nova gained popularity in the 1960’s. Guitarist Joao Gilberto recorded the first bossa nova in 1958 with Chenga de Saudade. Stan Getz became passionate about the bossa nova giving the genre affinities with the west coast jazz. Herb Albert created a new style based on the Mexican Music that which became known as Ameriachi. This new style was seen in the hit record The Lonely Bull.
In the 1965 Buck Owens,’ I’ve got a Tiger by the Tail became number 25 on the pop charts. The feeling of separateness that characterized much of country music. Merle Haggard’s song Okie from Muskogee would be a critique of the counter counterculture of the late 1960’s. Pasty Cline was popular on the pop and country charts in 1960 with I Fall to Pieces and Crazy. Elvis Presley’s music seem to go with the times of with his music, Crying in the Chapel would have the Nashville sound.
Ray Charles would be a constant present in R&B during the 50’s. He would find great success with Tin Pan Alley’s Georgia on My Mind. Ray Charles was a fine piano player who was fluent in jazz and pop idioms. One of his records that be a risk for Ray Charles became the Modern Sounds of Country and Western music. His critics did not want Ray Charles to make this album and saw it as a failure from the start. He would not be swayed and made of the most enduring albums in music history. Country musicians and pop musicians alike celebrated the genius of his album.
Sam Cooke became the pioneer of soul music though he began his singing career as a gospel singer. He would give up singing gospel and change the world of music. His struggle to make soul records would be same as Bob Dylan. Sam Cooke music would express politics in soul and rock music. James Brown became known as the Godfather of Soul. His music became Politically charged with Say it Loud- I’m Black and I’m Proud. James Brown would have more influence of the sounds and styles of black music. Hip-hop artist samples his records even today and he is known as the pioneer of rap style.
Aretha Franklin underwent a long period of apprenticeship before she became know as breakthrough pop star in 1967. She found her success with I Have Never Loved a Man. Amazing Grace a gospel album recorded in a church became one of the most spectacular live albums. In 1968, she recorded Respect and co-wrote Think that became chart-toppers. Not only did Franklin symbolize female empowerment in her music she also did it in her music.
Bob Dylan wrote some of the most memorable songs recorders by many different artists over decades. Bob Dylan established himself as an acoustic singer-songwriter in the early 1960’s. Many artists in the counterculture of America would record blowing in the Wind. Peter, Paul, and Mary recorded the most popular version of Blowing in the Wind. Like a Rolling Stone would become an epic pop single that would make it to number two on the pop charts. Bob Dylan never was content to be pigeonholed to fall into a predictable role in music style or movement.
With rock music and radical politics developed its own culture. Fads of long hair, beards, beads, tie-dyed shirts and blue jeans became the fashion. The jargon of the hippies became common in American language with groovy, far out, stoned and other phrases emerged. Drugs also fueled this movement with LSD and other substance abuse. The music reflected the audience that listen to music influenced by these means of free expression.
In the summer of 1967 the summer of love the Beatles would release Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band. This album was revolutionary as pop musical art and this was the first of its kind. It also featured different instruments from India. When the Beatles sang We Love to take you home with us the listener took the Beatles into their homes in the form of a record. The Rolling Stones tried to out do with Beatles with Their Satanic Majesties. Blues and R&B influenced their album that was the inspiration for the Rolling Stones.
Psychedelic rock was played in San Francisco that encompassed a variety of styles. One of the biggest celebrities was Grace Slick and Janis Joplin. Janis Joplin was influenced by Bessie Smith and Big Mamma Thornton. Janis was not accepted by R&B charts and never managed to cross over. Jerry Garcia and the Grateful dead would have a following known as Deadheads. They were a different kind of group and encouraged their audiences to record them. Even though the Grateful Dead had a mass audience appeal they didn’t have hit till 1987.
The Doors would form their group in Los Angles, California and they had a steady gig at the Whiskey A Go-Go. They gained popularity with longer versions of their songs on AM radio stations. This was also a crucial development to Rock ‘N’ Roll music. Jimmy Hendrix was the most original, inventive and creative guitarist of the rock era. Jimmy Hendrix gained experience touring with R&B groups. This influence can be heard in Purple Haze and he used the solos to enhance his guitar solos.
Eric Clapton would be the most influential guitarist in Britain. He would attract R&B fans and blues fans. He also formed the band called Cream in late 60’s and would form the first line of rock trios. Crossroads would be a cover of the Robert Johnson version that be recorded in 1968.
The 1960’s would be a violent decade that was seen as disruptive and controversial. Baby boomers had a vital role in the political and cultural events in the 60’s. During their time, Rock ‘N’ Roll developed into rock. The decade started with the cowboy ballad El Paso by Marty Robbins this showed a slight pull to country music during this decade.
Dances that were a part of songs written about them became very popular. The Twist was written by Hank Ballad using a twelve bar blues. This did not become a hit for his group, but it became a major hit for Chubby Checker. The twist was not the free-form dance but signaled a change in the popular dance movement. There were other dances that were popularized by song the pony, the mashed potatoes, the monkey, and countless other dances developed. Theses dances appeared on American Bandstand and other programs that brought the music of the 1960’s and the dances that accompanied the music into American homes. Rock ‘N’ Roll music became the music of the liberated. This could be seen in the go-go dancers of the 60’s.
Songwriters also emerged during Carol King wrote The Loco-motion for her baby sitter, Little Eva. Phil Spector would have a hit with his song To Know Him is to Love him. Spector became more known for his music business and how he shaped the sounds of records that audiences came to enjoy. Part of the characteristic of his music was the “wall of sound” these records became known as teen-age symphonies. One of his groups The Drifters sang Save the Last Dance and Up on the Roof that became chart-toppers.
Berry Gordy Jr. became known for his songwriting/producing and marketing organization. Overall he became know for creating Motown-based in Detroit. Even through Motown had some of the great black musicians Gordy did not make music for only black listeners. He would be unapologetic in his goal of making the music available to all listeners. The Supremes and The Temptations became better known than the Crystals or the Ronettes. Motown artist would also break away from their groups and have great success. Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross were able to gain recognition away from their groups. Motown became know as Hitsville USA, which Gordy named. Motown produced Martha and the Vandellas, Junior Walker, and the All Stars, the Four Seasons, Gladys Knight and Pips, and the Jackson Five.
Bryan Wilson formed the Beach Boys with his two brothers and his cousin in Hawthorne, California. Wilson was a singer, songwriter, arranger, and producers. Wilson captured the sound of southern California and the surf and sun. Wilson would achieve international acclaim as a studio wizard. This was seen in Surfing USA the Beach Boys first number one hit.
In 1964, the Beetles had a chart-topper in America with I Want to Hold Your Hand. With the success of this song and others would spark Beatlemania. George Martin was seen as the fifth Beetle for his role in the recording studio. This marked a change not only for the music in America but also for the nation with the election of John F. Kennedy. Their success could be seen as an America asking for change. There would be countless British bands in the 1960’s that influenced the British Invasion of music.
Concept albums were conceived as integrated whole this could be seen in Pet Sounds. This album was a great influence on the Beatles 1967 album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts club band. Brian Wilson also took inspiration for 1966 single Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys.
Latin soul pushed its way on the charts with Herby Hancock’s Watermelon Man in 1963 which stayed on the charts for eleven weeks for Ramon “Mongo” Santamaria. Ray Barretto would have a hit on the R&B and pop charts with his mambo band with EL Watusi. The Bossa Nova gained popularity in the 1960’s. Guitarist Joao Gilberto recorded the first bossa nova in 1958 with Chenga de Saudade. Stan Getz became passionate about the bossa nova giving the genre affinities with the west coast jazz. Herb Albert created a new style based on the Mexican Music that which became known as Ameriachi. This new style was seen in the hit record The Lonely Bull.
In the 1965 Buck Owens,’ I’ve got a Tiger by the Tail became number 25 on the pop charts. The feeling of separateness that characterized much of country music. Merle Haggard’s song Okie from Muskogee would be a critique of the counter counterculture of the late 1960’s. Pasty Cline was popular on the pop and country charts in 1960 with I Fall to Pieces and Crazy. Elvis Presley’s music seem to go with the times of with his music, Crying in the Chapel would have the Nashville sound.
Ray Charles would be a constant present in R&B during the 50’s. He would find great success with Tin Pan Alley’s Georgia on My Mind. Ray Charles was a fine piano player who was fluent in jazz and pop idioms. One of his records that be a risk for Ray Charles became the Modern Sounds of Country and Western music. His critics did not want Ray Charles to make this album and saw it as a failure from the start. He would not be swayed and made of the most enduring albums in music history. Country musicians and pop musicians alike celebrated the genius of his album.
Sam Cooke became the pioneer of soul music though he began his singing career as a gospel singer. He would give up singing gospel and change the world of music. His struggle to make soul records would be same as Bob Dylan. Sam Cooke music would express politics in soul and rock music. James Brown became known as the Godfather of Soul. His music became Politically charged with Say it Loud- I’m Black and I’m Proud. James Brown would have more influence of the sounds and styles of black music. Hip-hop artist samples his records even today and he is known as the pioneer of rap style.
Aretha Franklin underwent a long period of apprenticeship before she became know as breakthrough pop star in 1967. She found her success with I Have Never Loved a Man. Amazing Grace a gospel album recorded in a church became one of the most spectacular live albums. In 1968, she recorded Respect and co-wrote Think that became chart-toppers. Not only did Franklin symbolize female empowerment in her music she also did it in her music.
Bob Dylan wrote some of the most memorable songs recorders by many different artists over decades. Bob Dylan established himself as an acoustic singer-songwriter in the early 1960’s. Many artists in the counterculture of America would record blowing in the Wind. Peter, Paul, and Mary recorded the most popular version of Blowing in the Wind. Like a Rolling Stone would become an epic pop single that would make it to number two on the pop charts. Bob Dylan never was content to be pigeonholed to fall into a predictable role in music style or movement.
With rock music and radical politics developed its own culture. Fads of long hair, beards, beads, tie-dyed shirts and blue jeans became the fashion. The jargon of the hippies became common in American language with groovy, far out, stoned and other phrases emerged. Drugs also fueled this movement with LSD and other substance abuse. The music reflected the audience that listen to music influenced by these means of free expression.
In the summer of 1967 the summer of love the Beatles would release Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band. This album was revolutionary as pop musical art and this was the first of its kind. It also featured different instruments from India. When the Beatles sang We Love to take you home with us the listener took the Beatles into their homes in the form of a record. The Rolling Stones tried to out do with Beatles with Their Satanic Majesties. Blues and R&B influenced their album that was the inspiration for the Rolling Stones.
Psychedelic rock was played in San Francisco that encompassed a variety of styles. One of the biggest celebrities was Grace Slick and Janis Joplin. Janis Joplin was influenced by Bessie Smith and Big Mamma Thornton. Janis was not accepted by R&B charts and never managed to cross over. Jerry Garcia and the Grateful dead would have a following known as Deadheads. They were a different kind of group and encouraged their audiences to record them. Even though the Grateful Dead had a mass audience appeal they didn’t have hit till 1987.
The Doors would form their group in Los Angles, California and they had a steady gig at the Whiskey A Go-Go. They gained popularity with longer versions of their songs on AM radio stations. This was also a crucial development to Rock ‘N’ Roll music. Jimmy Hendrix was the most original, inventive and creative guitarist of the rock era. Jimmy Hendrix gained experience touring with R&B groups. This influence can be heard in Purple Haze and he used the solos to enhance his guitar solos.
Eric Clapton would be the most influential guitarist in Britain. He would attract R&B fans and blues fans. He also formed the band called Cream in late 60’s and would form the first line of rock trios. Crossroads would be a cover of the Robert Johnson version that be recorded in 1968.
El Paso
The Twist
The Loco-Motion
To Know Him is to Love Him
Save the Last Dance
Up on the Roof
Stop in the Name of Love
My Girl
Surfing USA
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Watermelon Man
The Lonely Bull
I've got a tiger by the tail
Okie From Muskogee
Georgia On My Mind
Chain Gang
Think
Blowing In the Wind
Like a Rolling Stone
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
She's a rainbow
Me & Bobby McGee
Aoxomoxoa
Light My Fire
Voodoo Child
Crossroads
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