MUH 2019 Spring 2015 Exam 1 Study Guide Introduction to the Study of Popular Music Theodor Adorno the Frankfurt School o His opinion of the pop music industry and culture industries in general Quotation listening Passive listening public Connections to political control subjugation The Music Industry Vertical vs horizontal integration Copyright o Mainstream vs margins of industry Major vs Independent record labels Tin Pan Alley Structure and business model o Composers songwriters o Publishers o Song pluggers Tin Pan Alley standard song form Themes of song lyric content Vaudeville vs crooning vocal style o Al Jolson Race Records and Blues Definition of blues o Musical form o Marketing category o Folk traditions FORM 12 bar blues o Know about the number of different harmonies within the form where in the 12 bar form they typically occur o aab 3 line form of text Classic Blues o Bessie Smith Country Blues LISTENING St Louis Blues Playing style vocal and guitar techniques Mythical biography o LISTENING Crossroads Blues Hillbilly Records 1 o Origins musical and social characteristics compared and contrasted with classic blues o Robert Johnson o Rural folk origins and influences Social medicine show traveling vaudeville Musical Anglo American ballads o Importance of radio Grand ol Opery and barn dance shows o The Carter Family o Jimmie Rodgers LISTENING Gospel Ship Rambler travelin man persona LISTENING Blue Yodel no 2 Differences and similarities to blues High Lonesome Sound o Country and Western Hillbilly music moves toward the mainstream Reasons for post WWII popularity of country music nationwide Honky tonk Hank Williams o Life and legend as exemplary figure of country singer image Postwar Rhythm and Blues ASCAP vs BMI licensing legal battle Jump band music o Louis Jordan o LISTENING Choo Choo Ch Boogie o Roots in Kansas City Swing William Count Bassie Chicago blues Boogie woogie piano style o Social context Chicago urban music scene and migration of people o Muddy Waters o LISTENING Hoochie Choochie Man How does this song represent a continuation of Deep South rural traditions and practices Vocal harmony groups doo wop Female R B singers o Big Mama Thorton Origins influences from African American sacred traditions LISTENING Hound Dog Compared and Contrasted with Elvis cover Rise of Rock n Roll Reasons for and the factors affecting the emergence of the new genre Alan Freed o Payola 2 o Biography musical upbringing o Rockabilly o Early years of career with Sun Records contrasted with rest of career in mainstream Cover Version o Sh Boom both versions similarities and differences o Mystery Train both versions contrast and changes in Elvis version Early Rock n Roll musicians The first generation Defining musical and social characteristics Chuck Berry o Reasons for Chuck Berry s success as rock n roll artist o LISTENING Maybelline Song form song text o LISTENING Long Tall Sally song form o Musical background influences Early rock n roll the next generation Little Richard Fats Domino Elvis Presley with RCA Victor records o LISTENING Don t Be Cruel Ritchie Valens o LISTENING La Bamba Folk roots and changes to Valens arrangement List of Possible Listening Examples St Louis Blues Bessie Smith Choo Choo Ch Boogie Louis Jordan and his Tymphany Five Maybellene Chuck Berry Long Tall Sally Little Richard Don t Be Cruel Elvis Presley Gospel Ship Carter Family Blue Yodel No 2 Jimmie Rodgers Hound Dog Big Mama Thorton and Elvis versions Sh Boom Both Versions Mystery Train Both versions La Bamba Ritchie Valens 3 List of other possible songs to be included in questions but not to be played as listening example during the exam 4
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