2oth-21st Century Music

The music industry creates and perform s music, both in the form of composition and performances.

It composed of singers, songwriters, musician, composer, publishers, writers, record industry, band managers,tour promoters, bookers and roadies.

POPULAR MUSIC Simply called as pop

music, belongs to any of a number of contemporary musical styles that are broadly popular.

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The narrower meaning cover mainstream music that does not fall into other convenient style such as jazz or hiphop.

In the broader sense, popular music means any sort of music intented for mass consumption and propagated over the radio and similar media.

TYPES OF POPULAR MUSIC

Country music Country music, once known

as Country and Western music, is a popular musical form developed in the southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals, and the blues.

Disco Disco is an up-tempo style of

dance music that originated in the early 1970s, mainly from funk, salsa, and soul music popular originally with gay and black audiences in large U.S. cities, and derives its name from the French word discothèque (meaning nightclub.

Funk Funk is a distinct style of music

originated by African-Americans

 Funk can best be recognized by its syncopated rhythms; thick bass line (often based on an "on the one" beat); razor-sharp rhythm guitars; chanted or hollered 

Hip hop Jazz Rock and roll Punk rock Progressive rock Alternative rock

ROCK MUSIC Includes elements of

several black and white AMERICAN music styles .

In the early fifties ROCK MUSIC was initially referred to as ROCK ‘N’ ROLL

The use of ROCK ‘N’ ROLL is traditional in blues, a form of popular music that evolved in the 1950’s form Rhythm and blues.

After 1964 , it was simply called ROCK MUSIC .

BROADWAY Is America’s contribution to

musical drama. Broadway has a popular

style so it is easily appreciated by ordinary people.

ELECTRONIC MUSIC Is kind of Music in which sounds

are produced electronically.

Composers use electronic equipment to produce sounds of the desired loudness,pitch, rhythm,duration and tone color

Many composers of electronic music use an equipment called SYNTHESIZER, to combine, modify and distort sounds.

SYNTHESIZER can imitate the sound of of traditional traditional music instruments but are often used to create a unique new sounds.

MINIMALIST MUSIC Main concept is the use of

small or minimal amount of musical material.

Minimalistic music is often said to have a trance like or hypnotic effect.

CHANCE MUSIC Is called ALEATORY MUSIC or

INDETERMINISTIC MUSIC.. This music is based on CHANCE.

Theoretically, indeterminism is the opposite of serialism where the composers controls every details of a piece through numerical patterns.

John Cage

Is considered the father of INDETERMINISM