The Rise Of EDM
EDM (Electronic Dance Music), or House music, first originated in Chicago in the 1980’s, but has been popular in Europe for the last twenty years. However, it did not become a prominent genre of music in North America until about 2005 when it was first seen in hit Pop songs by artists such as Timbaland and Akon. Since then, EDM has spread like wildfire in North America, influencing every genre of music and giving a new look to the entire music scene. It truly is the new wave of music that is quickly becoming mainstream.
Songs consist of melodic tunes made up of electronic sounds, synthesisers, hard hitting bass lines, and often catchy vocals. EDM is seen as the new generation of music and is especially appealing to the young adults of today. A recent paper published by Wall Street veteran, John Langdon, and his company Massive Advisors, LLC, says that the EDM market is a $15-$20 billion global industry. Business is thriving from this new style of music and can make huge profits by simply getting a known disc jockey (DJ) to perform in their club or arena.
In Vancouver, there are two main EDM companies, “Blueprint Events” and “Solid Events”, that host large events on long weekends and holidays These companies pack arenas, with over ten thousand spectators paying upwards of $100 to get in. Smaller events at nightclubs are hosted two to three days a week at local clubs around the lower mainland. However, this is nothing compared to the huge EDM festivals
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Electronic music is in most of the music that we hear today, and it’s good. We hear it in cafes, restaurants, clubs and even elevators. It’s all over us and it surrounds us even if we don’t realize it.
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Hip hop as a whole, to some degree, has been vilified, shunned and looked down upon as music that was not even worthy of being called art in many circles. This written to inform people about the history of hip hop and its social influences in the United States. Hip hop has a deeply rooted and momentous origin, with influential milestones and musicians who paved the way, and still maintain to make social change through its songs. Yet, hip hop has managed to take its message and history well beyond blind minds. Through this, I will delve into this "culture movement" by highlighting three major aspects of hip hop, specially the history and origin of hip hop music, hip hop through the decades, with the key musicians who pioneered this music genre,
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In this article, Peterson and Berger show how the organization of the popular music industry affects the music that America hears.
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Ultra Music Festival (UMF) is a yearly open air electronic music celebration that happens in March in the city of Miami, Florida, United States (DURAN, 2013).In this report I have analysed about the ultra-Miami festival event in USA and what is behind the success of the event. Events rarely succeed or fail it is totally depending on the scheduling and who all are the stakeholders are supporting the particular event. For a successful event there are several potential goals to satisfy and a plethora of stakeholders to involve (Presenza, 2012). Festivals are mostly unique in the events sector how the stakeholders are involved in the events. Media is mainly involved in a group way in television and
top genres in music: Electronic Dance Music (EDM). There are also lots of ways that consumers