Pop Music Flashcards
-The early popular music. These are narrative songs passed on from one generation to another through oral tradition.
Folk Songs
-These are topical narrative songs printed on a sheet that uses only one side of the paper.
-These songs have the following features:
-(1) simple and appealing to the audience;
-(2) with melody as the main feature;
-(3) with meaningful lyrics;
-(4) can be performed by an amateur; and
-(5) made to earn a profit.
Broadside Ballads
-These are songs with pentatonic melodies and romantic lyrics during the 19th century.
Scottish and Irish Songs
-Also called R&B or RnB, this is a form of American popular music, influenced by the blues of Africans.
-It is characterized by a strong beat and has lyrics about relations between men and women.
-Is in the quadruple meter, which has a backbeat, a regular emphasis on the second and fourth beats.
Rhythm and Blues
-Chuck Willis, Joe Turner, and Muddy Waters
-Also called hillbilly music and country and western, this is a form of popular music that is practiced and enjoyed by the white Americans generally of the working classes of the south.
-Country music is derived from
-(1) the folk ballad tradition;
-(2)instrumental dance pieces; and
-(3)white gospel music.
-It deals with real-life issues such as death, family, loneliness, etc.
-It is performed with a nasal tone, characteristic of the southern accent.
Country Music
-Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Carter Family, and Bob Wills.
-It is a form of popular music which is said to be an extension of the rhythm and blues.
-It is characterized by
-(1)the use of electric guitars,
-(2) a strong syncopated rhythm, and
-(3) youth oriented text.
Rock and Roll
-Elvis Presley
-It is a popular music style among American black performers that got its musical instrumentation from Motown and the style of intense and spontaneous passion of singing from the black gospel music tradition.
Soul
-Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and Stevie Wonder
-It is a kind of rock since 1972.
-It has the following features:
-(1) very loud amplification,
-(2) electric guitars in long virtuosic acts,
-(3) electronic distortion of sounds,
-(4) throbbing rhythms, and
-(5) attention-grabbing stage acts like shouting of the lyrics, outrageous clothing, light shows and visual images.
-Its lyrics usually deal with rebellion, and violence.
Heavy Metal
-Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, and Iron Maiden
-Initially, this was an English music from the working class of south London.
-It is a loud,fast style of rock music characterized by nihilistic lyrics that is, referring to the rejection of the values, religion, and morality.
-Performers of punk rock were dressed in wildly unconventional ways and behaved in a violent manner.
Punk Rock
-Sex Pistols, the Pretenders, the Clash, and Devo.
-This is a kind of popular dance music with elements of soul music – simple and repetitive lyrics and a strong Latin American rhythm.
-It encourages freestyle dancing. The term Disco came from the French word discotheque, which means a library of phonograph records.
Disco
-Donna Summer (Queen of Disco), Chic, Bee Gees, ABBA, Earth, Wind and Fire, and The Village People
-It is a kind of black popular music in which rhymed verses are improvised and chanted to a highly rhythmic, dance-based accompaniment.
-Its rhythmic background was produced by scratching, in which an LP (long playing; a phonograph record) was moved by hand to produce a rhythm.
-Later, the forceful and repetitive rhythms were played usually on drums or synthesizers.
Rap.
-Public Enemy, M.C. Hammer, and Run-MDC.
