Lule Chapter 6: Music Flashcards
phonograph
a sound reproduction machine that originally recorded on tinfoil sheet wrapped around a CYLINDER
gramophone
U.S. brand name for phonograph and used a DISC instead of a cylinder (named by Berliner)
Tin Pan Alley
- New York City
- composer’s, artists, singers, and publisher worked together to create hit songs
Vaudeville
a form of variety entertainment that included singing, magicians, comedians, and acrobats– popularized live shows (not opera)
ragtime
jazzy style of piano music characterized by a syncopated melody
the roaring 1920s
- starts the golden age of radio
- when radio broadcasting emerged, record sales (and sheet music) significantly decreased
1930s rise of jazz
- jazz was improvisational music, primarily instrumental
- emerged in New Orleans
- relaxed attitudes towards racial segregation
- muddy waters artist
blues (1930)
- 12-bar form of for singer and guitar
- Mississippi Delta
Mersey beat 1960s
- British invasion
- Beatles
- Rolling Stones
WHEN was the electric guitar made and by WHOM?
1931 & Adolph Rickenbacker
rock and roll (1950)
- a blend of rhythm ,country, blues, folk, & gospel music
- named by Alan Freed from a late night radio show
- Elvis Presley
rhythm & blues (1950)
- a combination of blues and jazz that was a precursor to rock and roll
Payola
the illegal practice of receiving money from record companies for playing particular songs on the radio
WHEN was the RPM LP disc released?
1948
surf music (1960)
- carefree, pleasurable music from California
- beach boys
Motown (1960)
- label developed for soul music by Berry Gordy Jr.
folk (1960)
- unpolished, based on oral tradition, played on acoustic and electric guitar
- Bob Dylan
folk rock (1960)
- folk music played with electric guitar
- Newport Folk Festival (Dylan goes electric)
glam rock (1970)
costumes, makeup, hard rock
disco (1970)
commercialized dance music
punk (1970)
minimalist, angry form of rock (politically motivated lyrics)
hip-hop (1980)
- rapping, sampling, break-dancing
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Gangsta rap
- hip-hop that highlights violence (in inner-cities)
- Ice Cube and Tupac
grunge (alternative rock) (1990)
alternative rock with distorted guitar sound
pop (2000)
Billie Eillish (electropop)
music in the 2020s
- hip-hop
- rap
- techno
- pop
electronic (2000s)
reliance on synthesizers and drum machines
