Popular Music Popular music‚ or pop music’‚ means music of the populace’. The term embraces all kinds of folk music which‚ originally made by illiterate people‚ were not written down. The creation of a popular music that aims simply at entertaining large numbers of people is a product of industrialisation‚ in which music became a commodity to be bought and sold. It is in the rapid industrialised nations‚ notably Britain and USA‚ that we first encounter composers who have devoted themselves
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Nicholaus Meyers MUSC 100: Music Appreciation 11th November‚ 2012 The Popular Music in Hong Kong When talk about the popular music we know the 1960s was the golden age of world’s popular music‚ and also the rock and roll. Hong Kong also followed the world’s step. The Hong Kong music was full of happy and freedom atmosphere since Hong Kong economic started to fly at that time. Young people began to contact the western trend. Radio became the main channel of music. The radio in English was priority
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Life today is very fast-paced. Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere and will push you out of the way to get there‚ like it’s some kind of race. In our personal lives‚ we have our cell phones‚ and maybe a home phone‚ scheduled play dates for our kids‚ microwaves‚ satellite TV‚ home security systems that don’t involve dogs‚ solar landscape lighting‚ automatic underground sprinkler systems for our lawns‚ and compact fluorescent lights to replace the incandescent bulbs that waste energy. In the business
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1960s‚ popular music artists began to record songs that reflected this disapproval and ultimately became a new method of protest. Popular music at the time echoed the opinions of many University Students during and many years after the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War played a significant role in the growth of the music industry as the controversy surrounding Vietnam became the driving force of musicians writing hundreds of songs talking about the war. Rock music bacame another form of popular music in which
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Drugs and Music in Popular Culture Sociology-Popular Culture American Military University Drugs and Music in Popular Culture One of America’s leading social issues is Drugs. Merriam and Webster define drugs as something and often an illicit substance that causes addiction‚ habituation‚ or a marked change in consciousness. Drugs have been around since the discovery of the America’s in 1492(Shmoop Editorial Team‚ 2008). A gift from Native American’s to Christopher Columbus in the form
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English Comp 1 4/21/12 Popular Culture in Rap Music The history of rap music started in Africa with rhythmic beats using drums. From Africa to the Caribbean islands it came to America and started its influential change on American Music. The first rap song to take flight and make its mark on the up and coming rap culture was the Sugar Hill Gang in 1979. In 1986 rap music finally reached the top of the music charts and was show on MTV for the first time featuring Run-DMC. Continuing to change
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Modernism of Fashion: 1950’s and Today Styles tend to cycle‚ but fashion itself is ever-changing and evolving. Fashion and its styles change continually. It has evolved accordingly to the time‚ culture‚ and society it is in. The similarities and differences of modern fashion today and modern fashion in the 1950s may appear obvious while others are subtler. World War II had ended in 1945 and is recognized in the fashion world as a “period of transition”. The whole 1950’s decade of fashion was very
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POPULAR MUSIC UNDER SIEGE Beginning in the 1980s‚ religious fundamentalists and some parents’ groups have waged a persistent campaign to limit the variety of cultural messages available to American youth by attacking the content of some of the music industry’s creative products. These attacks have taken numerous forms‚ including a call by the Parents’ Music Resource Center (PMRC) for the labeling of recordings whose themes or imagery relate to sexuality‚ violence‚ drug or alcohol use‚ suicide
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The Rock music era affected society in more negative ways than positive ones. Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1950’s. It gained its origins from rhythm and blues‚ jazz and rock and roll. The exact date of the birth of Rock music is difficult to determine .It was said that no one planned the Internet‚ but it was conceived and then it took over the world. The same can be said for Rock music (Dister‚ 19). Few would dispute that rock music owes most of it
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During the 1960’s and 1970’s rock music took the nation by storm‚ again. With its new wave of music‚ evident in the more dynamic tempos and uplifting sound‚ rock and roll had a much more impactful message to spread than it had in the 1950’s. In the 1950’s the music was simply made for fun‚ whilst in the 60’s and 70’s‚ although the music was still fun‚ in was proving a much more specific criticism on racial disputes. There was a notable spilt in the industry between black rock and roll and white rock
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