1. Popular Music

2. 1950’s Tin Pan Alley Death of the old industry 1950’s Pop Jazz
The emergence Of Rock ‘n’ Roll

3. Tin Pan Alley and The Old Industry
Cookie cutter song writing
Little celebrity status
Geared towards sheet
music sales
1950’s saw the advent of
recording technology and
distribution methods
Popularity of vinyl post WW2
Recovery from Depression

4. The Emergence Of Rock ‘n’ Roll
First blues and jazz recordings in 1920’s
Electric guitar created in 1931 (Rickenbacker)
Electric urban blues + a loss of blues structure + country style made for early rock ‘n’ roll
Chuck Berry, Little Richard
Elvis, 1953, breaks
cultural barriers

5. 1960’s 1960’s Rock ‘n’ Roll The Folk revival The British Invasion
Motown

6. 1960’S Rock ‘n’ Roll and The British Invasion
The Beatles and the invention of the modern industry (merchandise, tours, musical careers, full length albums, visuals)
The Rolling Stones
Jimi Hendrix
Globalization and music

7. The Folk Revival
Stretches back to early interest in folk during the Great Depression
Bob Dylan and the creation of modern folk
Joni Mitchel
Neil Young
Blues revival in Northern
United States

8. Motown Song writing team and house band
First all African American music business enterprise/label
Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations
Black reflections of optimistic future

9. 1970’s
Hard Rock
Disco
Funk
Punk

10. Hard Rock
Reaction to psychedelia, less experimental, more what we associate with Rock ‘n’ Roll
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Aerosmith

11. Disco A reaction to the growing rock driven mainstream
Pop music, meant for dancing in clubs
Favoured by minorities, often sexual and racial (Disco Sucks)

12. Funk An extension of Motown Further reflects the feelings of
African Americans in a post civil
Rights era
James Brown, George Clinton
Sly And The Family Stone

13. Punk The Stooges/Iggy Pop
Reaction to the commercialization of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Crossed economic barriers
Questioned if good music had
to be complicated
The Sex Pistols
The Ramones
The Germs

14. 1980’s
1980’s Hard Rock
Pop
Hip-Hop
PMRC

15. Pop and 1980’s Hard Rock Blockbuster, much like the rest of the 1980’s
Hair/glam metal: bands that truly lived and sung about the mantra “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll”
Guns ‘n’ Roses, Motley Crüe, Poision, Van Halen
Pop music took a very electronic approach (heavy use of synthesizers)
Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna

16. Hip-Hop Revival of funk and soul music through sampling
Started as a largely African American expression of life in cities
New York, Los Angeles
Brought along DJ’s and rapping
Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Sugarhill Gang, RUN DMC

17. Parental Music Resource Centre: PMRC
Formed by Mary “Tipper” Gore in 1985 after she first heard “Darling Nikki” by Prince
Created the parental advisory label against language/explicit content
Commercial censorship: convinced chain stores (Walmart) not to sell anything with this sticker, recording labels then tried to encourage artist to write clean music
Attempted to link heavy metal (Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson) to violent crims and teenage suicide

18. 1990’s
Alternative Rock/Grunge
Pop
Boybands
Gangsta Rap

19. Alternative Rock/Grunge
Built off Punk and alternative rock of 80’s
Reaction to the over the top commercialisation of 1980’s
Focused on the combination of different styles
Grunge: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden
Alternative Rock: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine, Stone Temple Pilots, I Mother Earth

20. Pop/Boybands
Pop trend that would continue into the 2000’s and even today
Just as popular as the 1990’s rock
Typically very clean, geared at youth and teenage audiences
Backstreet boys, Spice Girls, Brittany Spears, NSYNC

21. Gangsta Rap Extension of Hip-Hop Often very explicit Censorship?
Reflection of lower class
African American lifestyles
in the growing trend of
gangs

22. Music As A Cultural Tool
What can we learn by examining music:
Cultural response/reflection: what is going on that the music is coinciding with or proceeding?
Who’s voices are being hear? Who’s aren’t? What narratives are told? What narratives/images sell the most?
What racial and gender issues are at play?
Age of the consumer: who is buying music and what mediums are they choosing?