1. Diversity and MusicEducational Slideshow by Natan Wythe

2. What is Pop Music?Pop Music is no longer a sound, or genre of music!Pop radio today consists primarily of: American Roots Country such as Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum, Countryand Blues like Mumford And Sons and Cage The Elephant,and Jazz influenced singer-songwriters like Norah Jones Electronica Virtually all of Rap and Hip-Hop is electronic based, whilemany famous artists such as Black Eyed Peas have beenknown to sample famous classics. 3. What was Pop Music 100 years ago? RACIALLY SPLIT. Whites listened to early Country, Bluegrass, Ragtime,and Folk music. Black Pop Culture had a thriving music scene as well-however, Jazz, Blues, and Soul were almostexclusively considered to be Black Music. Additionally, Women were scarcely featured inpopular Music at all. 4. Elvis was one of the first artists to evertranscend the cultural norms of modernmusic. How? 5. Elvis Presley and his role in Civil Rights Music! Elvis created the perfect blend between white countryand black jazz and blues, to such an extent that when hisfirst recording, Thats All Right Mama surfaced, manywere unsure of his race. Many Music Historians say that Elvis early concerts afterhis rise were the first multi-racial public music events inAmerican History!! Through his unique hybrid of Jazz, Blues, and Country,Elvis Presley came to invent what became known as Rockand Roll- a genre that would change music forever. Additionally, his hip-shaking was revolutionary at thetime- it was even cut-off from his first public TV broadcast! 6. Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix was one of the most notable artistsduring the 1960s. His Guitar playing waslegendary, his songwriting was gorgeous, and heperformed like none other when he headlinedWoodstock in 1969. Jimi was born and raised in America- his earlyinfluences were black blues artists such as B.B King,Muddy Waters, and Howlin Wolf. However, hismusic truly transcended race, as his music played avital role in the uprising of the revolutionary 1970s. 7. Blondie played a massive role in thesexual liberation of popular music. 8. Protest Music: New AndOld, just as significant. Protest music is extremely important to almost all cultures.Something about music reaches out and touches people inways that other arts cannot, making music an ideal way toinspire racial change. We Shall Overcome was sung during the Civil RightsMovement by protesters, and is still sung today by people ofall races at a variety of protests. Imagine by John Lennon (1971) can be easily described fromits lyrics: Imagine all the people living life in peace. Where Is The Love by The Black Eyed Peas (2003) speaksabout racial differences, and how people should all simply getalong. 9. Thanks for viewing!I hope you learned a lot- Music is one of the most diversearts in the world, and it should be celebrated as such by all.The question, however, remains: Is music asculturally accepting as wed like it to be? Music in otherlanguages occasionally pops up on the radio, but do youthink there are still norms and taboos in the musicindustry? And lastly, if you dont take the steps Elvis, Jimi,or Blondie took to make change, who will?(-:-Natan 10. Attributions! The songs from this podcast are: A Little Less Conversation by Elvis Presley Manic Depression by Jimi Hendrix One Way Or Another by BlondieAll images from this podcast were found using a creativecommons image search, especially set to find images that canbe legally modified and distributed. The links are as follows:http://www.flickr.com/photos/basspunk/3844008338/http://www.flickr.com/photos/oddsock/71878427/sizes/z/in/photostream/http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/4039779846/