POPULAR MUSIC
(Mass music from Mass Culture)
Popular Music - A generic term for a wide variety of genres of music that appeal to the
taste of a large segment of the population whereas pop music.
• Pop music originated in britain in the mid-1950s as a description for rock and roll
and the new youth music styles that influenced
Key elements of a mass popular music from three
influences from the mid-19th century.
• First, a growing middle class in Western European saw an involvement in higher
culture as a means of social improvement, with involvement in the arts especially
in music
• Second, increasing affluence created a large consumer market for music initially in
printed form for domestic use.
• Third, dissemination was a furthered through technological means of mass music
reproduction such as nickelodea, the player-piano or pianola and most significantly
the development of sound reproduction on disc which allowed not just the
composition but a particular performance and hence the performer to become
significant in their own right.
• Emil Berliner - Was a German-born American inventor. He is best known
for inventing the flat disc phonography record and gramophone.
OPERETTA -Is a popular development of opera, most prevalent and influential
from the 1960s to the 1920s.
• The term includes fluid range of designations such as opera bouffe,
operette, comic opera, operetta itself and later musical romance.
Jacques Offenbach - A german-born french composer, cellist, an impresario of
the romantic period.
• He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s-1870s
and his uncompleted opera The Tales of hoffmann
DIE LUSTIGE WITWE (The Merry Widow)
• An operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehar
• The operetta has enjoyed extraordinary international success since its 1905
premiere in Vienna & continue to be frequently revived and recorded.
American Popular Song - At its simplest, the dominant forms of Western popular music
evolved on the one hand from sentimental, tuneful parlor ballads and theater songs and on
the other from an injection of new rhythmic ideas in social dance.The popular song became
the principal form of popular music presented by a named soloist, arranged for dance band,
played by jazz ensembles and sold in printed and recorded versions suitable for domestic
music making.
Maple Leaf Rag - An eraly ragtime musical composition for piano composed by
Scott Joplin. It was one of joplin's early works and became the model for ragtime
compositions by subsequent composers.It is one of the most famous of all ragtime
pieces. As a result Joplin was called the "King of Ragtime".
Bessie Smith - Was an American blue singer. Nicknamed the ” Empress of the
Blues”, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s-1930s .
JAZZ
- The evolution of the musical style known as jazz has its roots in the synthesis of the musics
of European settlers and black African slaves in the southern United States of America.
-A dominant musical force for the first two-thirds of the 20th century.
-Jazz made its mark on a wide number of popular and art musics particularly through its
treatment of rhythm and syncopation.
Louis Armstrong -Considered one of the pivotal musicians in Jazz for his contributions as a
trumpet, composer and singer.
Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden- A trumpet player who lead a band and an
African-American cometist.
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band- Was a dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz
recordings in early 1917
.Wynton Marsalis- A trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator & artistic director of
jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States