America

  • Root genres
    • elements
    • mixed
    • sub genres
    • mix the elements to create compounds
  • folk (elements)
    • blues and spirituals (black)
    • religious songs created by the enslaved
    • blues
      • sung really sad (sing crying out)
      • a sung lament; sickness and death; 12 bars; sped up boogie
    • spirituals
      • faith
      • hope in god
    • immigrant
    • Mexican
    • Italian
    • the latino chart
    • audience and consumer based
    • classical
    • early works
      • migrant music
      • ppl who migrated were Europeans
      • bach; mozart
      • brought over by the europeans
      • heritage became dominant structure
    • 20th century
      • john cage 4’ 33’’
    • popular
    • created because of the war
    • america need ppl to join the war
    • a lot of ppl in america were not educated; hear abt the war using the radio
    • radio was a dominating news and entertainment tool/source
    • early popular: military used music/jingles to call for ppl
    • gospel: christian alternative to mainstream music (black)
      • when blacks were freed; sing gospel; singing joyful things
    • blues:
      • own form of music; sickness and death; 12 bars; sped up boogie
    • blues+electronica - disco
    • jazz (black)
      • south USA
      • confluence of african and european cultures
      • turn of 20th century
      • jazz structure: any structure (4 bars- repeated, give up the melody, have the melody in your heart and improvise) → how you appreciate jazz
      • scat
    • musicals and films (white)
    • country: (white)
      • appalachian fold music; multinous region in the US
      • rural south folk music; (predominantly irish and british); country music has its roots from irish music
      • w continental european music
    • R&B (black)
      • jazz base music
      • origins come from jazz
      • large rhythm unit and heavy insistent beat
    • soul (black): R&B and gospel (if the insistent beat goes away it is considered soul)
    • electronica (music w electrical pulse)
    • pop and rock: beatles, music of the young
    • rock and roll (black and white/ primarily based off capitalism)- elvis presley
    • afro america: reggae; rap; hip hop (harlem in NYC, rapid fire words, bg of records, tapes, live rock)
      • hip hop- movement
      • bboying
      • emceeing
      • djing
      • rap- words
      • reggae
      • came from jamaica
      • requires its performance and musicians to believe in this value that they need to smoke weed which brings them closer to god
    • metal and punk (white)
      • beatles went to europe
      • loud, to bring listener to the floor
    • EDM- electronic dance music
  • instrumentation (tone→ increasing roughness as it goes down)
    • pop - anything goes
    • rock- guitar-bass-drum
    • rock and roll- big band- guitar- bass
    • metal -e. guitar- e. bass- amplified drums
    • alt- alt ingredients but the sound is not