Music Is Always Changing With The Times

The hippie aesthetic era was an important time in rock and roll during the late 60’s and on into the early 80’s. It was a time were rock had a sense of purpose. They sung about the issues that plagued the country. It was also a time where technology would play an important roll in the sound of music, with the advancement in recording and synthesizer technology (Covach, “The Hippie Aesthetic”). The hippie aesthetic was not immune to the advancement of music. This essay will go over three songs that represent the different aspects of this era. It’ll will review a song that is predominately hippie aesthetic, a song that is a little of both, and finally a song that has no trace of hippie aesthetic.

This week I learned a lot about music and the different genres. The first genre I learned about was Motown. The Motown Sound is a style of soul music with original characteristics, including tambourine, drums, bass instrumentation, a distinctive melodical and chord structure, and a "call and response" singing style originating in gospel. The second genre I leaned about was Blues. Blues is a genre originated by African Americans in the South of the United States around the late 19th century. This genre emerged from roots in African musical traditions. Blues included spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, etc. The third genre, which I found most interesting and amusing was Psychedelic. Psychedelic music was influenced by the 1960s psychedelic culture, a subculture of people who used drugs such as LSD, mushrooms and DMT to experience visual and auditory hallucinations and altered states of

‘Working Class Man’ features a common time signature (4/4). This is a regularly occurring feature in Rock music, as the focus leans on the melody line, as oppose to more difficult rhythmic qualities of a more complex time signature. It’s tempo =120 beats per minute. The drum kit plays a syncopated rhythm, placing emphasis on beats 2 and 4, which is another regularly occurring feature of Rock. The extended chords in the guitar are played on beat one, and sustained

“Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” contains extended instrumental solos which I believe is a common trait for psychedelic rock. Although the beat structure of the song is fairly simple in comparison to many psychedelic rock songs in my opinion, it does contain creative lyrics. The creative lyrics is something that is an important element of rock. The extended instrumental solos and creative lyrics in the song are significant because the extended solos make the songs contain an upbeat tempo while the creative lyrics shows the song has an ulterior meaning to it. Combining both elements from R&B and rock is significant in general because it creates a new musical style or genre. The combination of these elements in this song show that it has a funk-rock style/genre. The funk-rock genre has grown and the band Sly and the Family Stone were instrumental in the popularizing of this genre and also influencing future artists to sing this

The music you listen to comes in many forms of music. Like pop (aka popular music) hip-hop, rap, r&b, country. You might think they have nothing in common with each other but they do, they come in many ranges, many different sounds, and some of them have a rich history. (this info comes from http://www.musicgenreslist.com/)

The voices sound rough and raspy, and I cannot tell if the interludes from lyrics include some form of moaning or mild yelling because of the raspy voice. The voices sound strained and prone to breaks. I do not know if this is from screaming or if that is their natural voice. Both would make sense in

Musical genre is defined as a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style or subject matter ( the music genre list 2017 ). Today’s music comes in all styles and forms, this makes it difficult to categorize those new and emerging genres. Hip Hop and Grime both have a culture and are both a rap style genre, that share many of the same music and stylistic characteristics. All these similarities does not mean they are the same genre, and here is why.

During the 1950s, bands and solo artists were still discovering what type of genre they belonged to, as many genres could be mistaken for others, such as Rock and Roll and R&B. During the 60s these types of music became more evident and artists now began to belong to certain genres.

"Jailhouse Rock" was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller that first became a hit for Elvis Presley. When the song begins I hear a string and a percussion instrument that seem to be keeping the beat, the two instruments are what I believe to be a string guitar and a type of snare drum. I would say that the tempo of this piece varies from adagio in the beginning but changes to an allegro tempo as the song progresses. The guitar pattern seems to be dividing the beats into equal parts. I also believe that he adds a rhythmic feel to the song by highlighting and slightly lengthening the first note of each pair which

Rick Stone’s Dance Band played a variety of different genres from the 1960’s music stockade of tunes. They played “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” from the Beatles, instruments used was the drums, bongos, piano, acoustic guitar, horns, vocals, and saxophone. The tempo of the song was moderato and the meter was quadruple. The song was polyphonic in texture with a repetition in form. The fact the sound blended well with the vocals and the instruments made me want to throw on hippie clothes and sway my arms like I was swimming. From Motown “Tears of a Clown” by Smokey Robinson the instruments played drums, bassoon, piano, horns, and vocals. The tempo was moderato, quadruple meter, and polyphonic in texture. This song if you take away the instruments would be acapella with a lead singer and back up singers. For the Psychedelic Rock, Rick Stone’s Band played “Break on through to the Other Side” by The Doors. The instruments used were the keyboard bass, drums, electric guitar, and vocals. The tempo was accelerando because it started out slow and sped up when the vocals got louder. The song is polyphonic in texture and the vocals were word painting making you want to bust through that wall to the other side. The Roots genre was represented “Born on the Bayou” by Creedence Clearwater Revival. The instruments used were the piano, guitar, drums, and vocals. The tempo was a moderato with a polyphonic texture with a consonance harmony, which provided the image of the movie the “Waterboy” every time I hear that song. Rick Stone’s band represented Folk Rock by playing “Mrs. Robinson” by Simon and Garfunkel. Major chords are strummed on acoustic guitars and with vocals. The harmony is dissonance and the tempo was

A genre is a label for a film, movie, or song. Genres group together similar pieces based on their characteristics. For example, the genre of classic rock is characterized by electric guitars, drums, and bass guitars. Music is easier to classify than shows, so how does one decipher what genre a show is? A valuable start is to know what characteristics fit into a genre.

The 1960’s in the United States was a decade marred by social unrest, civil rights injustice, and violence both home and abroad. These were some of the factors that lead to a cultural revolution. The revolution attempted to diverge the fabric of American society. Teenagers were living dangerously and breaking away from the ideals that their parents held. In the process they created their own society (Burns 1990). They were young and had the nerve to believe that they could change the world. Their leaders had lofty goals as well. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had dreams of a truly equal America. John F. Kennedy dreamed of a young vigorous nation that would put a man on the

John Covach, the author of What’s That Sound, distinguishes the cultural elements of pop-culture/music within four distinct categories: social, race, business, and technology. Without a doubt, all four of these traits within pop-culture have been evolving and changing ever since the emergence of any pop-culture. The cultural themes of the always-changing society, business, and technology have indefinitely changed pop-culture and vice-versa. In my essay, I want to discuss how the technology and the evolution of technology affected the growth and modernization of popular music.

During the mid-80’s,in the rainy city of Seattle, a musical movement was born. The “Seattle Sound”, commonly called Grunge, is best known for its distorted guitars, heavy drumming, and flannel shirts. The grunge aesthetic is basic, if not dirty, as many grunge musicians were noted for their messy appearances and rejection of anything dramatic. The success of bands, such as Soundgarden and Nirvana, exponentially increased the popularity of grunge and helped it become the favored form of hard rock music during the late 80’s-mid 90’s. Regardless of the fact that most grunge bands disbanded or faded away by the late 1990s, their influence still continues to affect rock music today.

Music has been known to exist before 4,000 years before the common era in Egypt (The