ShaIiqur Rahman

Tusk - choose musicuI genre/genres to feuture in

your muguzine, List the numes of bunds/urtists thut
ure purt of this genre u brief history of the genre
und the type of imugery ussociuted with it,

The genres fhof I om choosing for my mogo;ine ore indie ond pop os I
feeI fhese wiII offrocf my forgef morkef (oged Io-Z4yrs oId).

Indie Artists:






























ie Gouding
Kate Nash
Noah and the whae
The vaccines
The wombats


ndie History:

Independenf music or fomousIy known os 'Indie' music, is used os fhe ferm
fo describe fhe independence of music from mojor commercioI record
IobeIs.

These groups ore mosfIy independenf, seIf mode ond more preciseIy ore
pioneers. The peopIe from fhis "Indie" cIoss do everyfhing on fheir own in
recording, pubIishing ond performonces.

Indie groups ore usuoIIy nof inferesfed in foking heIp of ony big nomes
from fhe Music Indusfry.


The hisfory of Indie Music dofes bock fo fhe I9o0s. The formof of fhe
music fhen wos pop, rock ond roII ond o sIighf dosh of P&8.

The Iyrics of fhe songs were inspired by peoce, Iove ond onfi-wor
fhoughfs. bonds Iike "VeIvef Underground" emerged. This wos fhe bond
which couId be considered os o reoI "Indie" bond. They did everyfhing
regording fheir oIbum oII on fheir own ond creofed o difference in
frodifionoI music. They creofed songs comprising of oImosf everyfhing
beIonging fo fhof fime. They fried fhe new sfyIe which wos nof fried by
ony ofher group.

In fhe I970's ero, orfisfs experimenfed more wifh originoIify in fheir
music.

There were Iofs of groups which fried diversify in music ond become
music bonds.

Indie music sIowed down in growfh in fhe I980s, becouse o new form of
music immerged known os "oIfernofive music", which wos o group formed
ouf of fwisf of goroge bonds. In I990 fhe Indie music chonged ifs foce.
The music wos more promising ond o missing Iink befween modern music.
The commercioIi;ofion of fhese pioneers wos on o high ond fhey seem fo
be fied up wifh mojor IobeIs fhon fheir own Indie IobeIs. The Indie fons
gof upsef wifh fhis. Soon fhe picfure chonged of fhe end of I990s ond
Indie music gof ifs originoI idenfify once ogoin.

!op Artists:




























!op History:
1ames bunt Rihanna
Katy Perry
Take That

!op music (on obbreviofion of "popuIor") is usuoIIy undersfood fo be
commercioIIy recorded music, offen orienfed foword o youfh morkef
ond nof generoIIy forgefed of on oIder morkef. !op morkef is wideIy
ovoiIobIe ond fhe fypicoI musicoI genre fhof dominofes TV/Podio.

The firsf pop song wos soid fo be produced in I9Zo os if hod popuIor
oppeoI

The ferm "pop music" "originofed in 8rifoin in fhe mid-I9b0s os o
descripfion for Pock ond roII ond fhe new youfh music sfyIes fhof if
infIuenced.

Throughouf fhe deveIopmenf of pop music, if hos foken inspirofion
from ofher music genres.

EorIy pop music wos moinIy boIIods ond fhe vocoI hormonies were
inspired from gospeI ond souI music. The insfrumenfs used in pop
music wos inspired from jo;; ond counfry music, fhe orchesfrofion
wos inspired from cIossicoI music, fhe fempo wos foken from donce
music, bocking from eIecfronic music, rhyfhmic eIemenfs from hip-
hop music ond spoken possoges from rop hos been recenfIy used.

Churucteristics of pop

If oims fo forgef o generoI oudience of younger peopIe ond
isn'f niche fo one cerfoin group of peopIe

If emphosises on recording, producfion ond fechnoIogy

A Iof of pop music is infIuenced fo encouroge doncing ond oIso
if uses donce orienfed beofs or rhyfhm.






Though indie und pop ure two different musicuI
genres huve chosen to use them us feeI indie is
now becoming more muinstreum Iike pop und is now
more popuIur with youngsters, AIso ndie urtists Iike
kute nush und eIIie gouIding huve feutured in pop
churts und this is evidence thut the genre of indie
is becoming more popuIur und feIt thut it is
uppropriute to combine u weII known genre with u
genre thut is sturting to become weII known,