Music And Its Impact On Development Of Musical Performances And Production

Ideology, as a set of ideas, assumptions and values that legitimate and tend to reify social relations, can be related to music.

“A freelance professional musician has to be willing to perform a wide variety of musical styles (folk, classical, and pop) in order to please a wide spectrum of audiences. All musical styles are worthy of equal respect since all music is tied to people’s need for emotional, heartfelt expression through memorable melodies. In order to make a living, a musician has to travel to where the jobs are and not be fixated on trying to earn an income from home” (2009).

For new bands, one of their first major steps into getting into the business is usually finding a record label. A record label is commonly known by most people as someone who simply signs a band and sells their music. What most people do not know is that they do much more than that. A label does do all the things that people believe they do, however, they also do much more to help an artist. A label is one band’s contact to other artists or promotors that will help further their popularity and reach out to more businesses who could potentially seek endorsement deals to support an artist while also advertising their own product (Lindvall). However, some bands have had negative experiences with labels. There are many negative outlooks on record labels recently and their work with certain artists.

Music junkies, concert connoisseurs, and vinyl vigilantes everywhere need to know about the similarities and differences between the alternative rock and indie rock genres. The genres alternative and indie are terms sometimes used interchangeably, but their origins are indeed differing. There has been a varying progression of media platforms used to listen to these genres among the past few decades due to society’s social and economic changes. In terms of instrumental progressions and technological buildups in the music world, the instruments and stylings used to define these genres has changed as well. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, alternative rock is defined as “a style of rock music characterized as unconventional, or outside the mainstream which resonated powerfully with a generation weathering an economic recession.” Conversely, Oxford explains the term indie as “the deliberately unpolished or

Musical genres can be often analyzed from two standpoints: the way the genre approaches musical harmony and the genre’s stylistics. There is Country with its rudimentary melodic approach, which in a majority of times is merely a backdrop for stories that cover themes such as love, freedom, religion, and, unsurprisingly, the aspects of life in the countryside. A major part of Country’s aesthetics is reached with the use of very few recognizable instruments, such as fiddles and banjos. On the other hand, we have Jazz, whose most renowned contributors were quite often creating instrumental pieces exclusively, praising structural and melodic complexity as their ultimate goals. Throughout its history, Jazz was moving in all directions, experimenting with all sorts of instruments and musical movements.

Becoming mainstream in the music industry is one of the biggest accomplishments for a genre, a record company, and an artist. Not only does it take a sufficient amount of effort to get there, it allows takes a sufficient amount to stay relevant and successful. Over time there have been some artist that have helped paved the way to glory for a genre, but also other genres that seemed to look like they were going to be successful but eventually died out. Some reasons why some genres were more successful than others was because they kept up with the changes happening around them, while others resisted the change because they thought what they were doing would always be successful. Also, some of these genres knew how to please the people while

In the years that Motown Records was being established there were many successful Independent labels. For example, Paramount and Gennett Records were widely known and successful. Independent labels started in the 1920’s. Independent labels want that big sound feeling, without the dealing with corporate America. Although, Motown Records started small, founder Berry Gordy Jr. had no intentions of keeping it that way by any means. This essay will briefly explain how Motown grew and the rich history of legendary musicians that helped establish Motown. This essay will also discuss how Motown Records impacted the music industry and how Berry Gordy Jr, and artist such as The Miracles, The Supremes, and Stevie Wonder to name a few create a sustainable

Mainstream being defined as belonging to or characteristic of a principal, dominant, or widely accepted group, movement and, style (Dictionary). As Sarah Nuttall says, “If you’re into glam you’re usually associated with sex, drugs, rock and roll, and reckless living as many of the song lyrics and the lifestyles of people that sang glam 99% of the time lived those lifestyles and usually you replicated your 'idols'. Most of them are just 'punks in makeup' and probably don't care about politics or obide by rules” (Nuttall). That would be how this subculture would distinguish themselves, they want to be far from the mainstream culture. The glam rock subculture is also different from mainstream culture due to not only their attitudes on life but also their clothing, hair and makeup styles. Having big hair, rocker makeup including “guyliner” and “manscara”, wearing animal prints, sequins, glitter, spikes, studs, metallic tops, tight pants, and platform shoes. “The idea is to stand out”(Marasigan). “Often dappled with glitter, male musicians took the stage in women’s makeup and clothing, adopted theatrical personas, and mounted glamorous musical productions frequently characterized by space-age futurism” (The editors of Encyclopedia

freedom in the genre with improvisation, and playing the music creates a great environment for

The music industry, a large industry that had captured the ears, the talents, the emotions of its listeners. Music has become an item that affects the lives of people everywhere, at all times. With our countless number of ways to communicate, through words, images, and sound; music has used these to speak to billions of people. Because of the wide variety that the industry has, they are separated in different genres that different type of people can listen to. Among all these genres, a genre that is alive, but does not catch so much of the attention it should get.

Punk was not only a musical and clothing style of cultures but also an ideology. Punk ideologies was a social and political beliefs that made up punk subcultures. The concept of punk was concerned with anti-establishment, free though, non-conformity and individualism. Punk subcultures was against the people who conform to mainstream lifestyle and ideology with the term of sell out. The primarily concern

This essay will be looking at Independent music in relation to the categorisation of distribution and production. It will also discuss the impact with regard to the development of musical performances and production.

The term “indie” is a shortening of the word independent and, in a way, both words share the same meaning: freedom from outside control. In the introduction to her book, Slanted and Enchanted, Oakes identifies “credibility, freedom, the ability to promote their own work and to control how it’s promoted” (page 10), as some of the principles that indie culture cultivates. Through her examples of indie creators, Oakes detailed two ways of how “indie” was “independent.” Indie artists like the Rock Paper Scissors corner shops, Adam Tobin of Unnameable books, and indie bands often used some level of personal interaction between artist and consumer that leads to personal credibility and an emphasis of the individuality of the indie artist. This personal

Emo, short for Emotional; this group is generally constructed as a group of teenagers who desperately try to escape the social class they have been put into. Mostly an underground scene the term “Emo” began as a music genre in the mid 1980’s with a group of bands set on redefining punk rock music. They based their music on emotions and feelings and this quickly spread throughout America. This lasted until the early 2000’s when the bases turned to (some say) over-the-top emphasis on self expression and negative connotations were implied; emotion and sadness thus stereotyping the word we so often hear today. With this derogatory, implications followed. Emos began to be marginalized due to

The creation of musical works has always been culminated by several different processes and usually involves many people. The process takes a lot of time delaying the release of music. Advancement in technology has played a significant role in the music production by lowering the length of time it takes to produce recorded material. Artists usually sign a contract with a recording company that markets their music products. The internet and low-cost recording technologies have created a “do-it-yourself” music movement. New artists have gained worldwide recognition without landing a recording contract with a major record label.