1945-1990's Music Analysis

The music from the 1950s-1990s has had a major influenced on modern day music. It has affected the way people live as well as how they act. Music has been influenced by many key events in history, from freedom rights to uniting countries. Music has also played a dominate role in society effecting the way people dress and act. Music is a trend setter, which has caused some positives and negatives on culture. This task will present how it has affected each of the above examples from the years 1945 through to 1990.
Music in 1945-1950 was heavily influenced by African-Americans. During this time the popular music was jazz, blues, and R & B. However, when Muddy waters added instruments such as piano, electric guitar and drums to blues, urban blues
From 1963, music really reflected on events happening across the world. Around this time, the British Invasion emerged, which created chaos in the United States. The British Invasion had mass effect on the music industry; it dominated the charts meaning that famous music acts that were dominating before hand were temporarily crashed off the charts. From 1963, the music was based upon events that impacted the world such as the assassination of President Kennedy, Vietnam war and the civil rights movement. Music was heard everywhere during this time, people listened to pocket-sized radios, stereos in cars and portable record players which helped gained the popularity of the music. In the late 1960s rock music festivals began, attracting 55,000 people then 3 years later going onto 500,000 people. The 1970s witnessed the making of another music style, hip hop. However, rock ‘n; roll during this time was still very popular. The 1970s were prime time for vinyl records as they were affordable for everyone and all music was put on a record. A positive of music was that technology had advanced, influencing artists, meaning that they were able to try new things when recording their
During this era the music wasn’t understood, the sound and fashion of it wasn’t either. This was a time when music began to provide great income, and its main focus was on making money. There were many new types of music genres that popped up during this time such as New wave and Hair Metal, which have influences on music today. T.V had a large influence on music during the 1980s. Colour T.V meant that music videos were in colour but, the music channels played music twenty-four hours a day meaning that young people could watch it anytime. Having music been played all the time had a large effect on music and helped breed new artists from all genres. In the 1990s, a range of music was listened to pop, funk, hip hop, electronic and alternative rock all attracted large audiences of all ages. However, as this decade went on genres began to fade out as artists began to experiment with all different types of music. Radios were essential, as they were being used by people every day when they were doing other activates such as driving, cooking or studying. The different stations targeted particular audiences, focusing on different genres and decades the music was from. This influenced people of all ages as they were able to listen to what they wanted on the different stations. Positives of music during these two decades are that as people were able