MUH 2019 Modern Popular Music Exam 2 Study Guide Elvis Presley began his career with sun records People wanted to turn him into mainstream performer without compromising his appeal to young audiences His hips were seen as vulgar by some but loved by teen fans Became the first biggest selling solo artist until the early 21st century Don t Be Cruel based on twelve bar blues incorporates a strong backbeat western swing uses electronic reverb to replicate slapback echoing sound Ritchie Valens La Bamba Adaption of a Mexican Folk song from the genre son jarocho Veracruz a historic center of Afro Mexican Culture Valens recording is simpler and spare than traditional interpretations Valens recording is notable for unique timbres including the fuzzy sound of the Gibson super 400 hollow bodied guitars Sam Cooke Change is Gonna Come immediately after his death inspired by multiple expierences he had he tried to check in to a racial hotel today his most highly regarded hit adopted as anthem of civil rights movement right before he died You Send Me to be played in class first pop hit aaba format tin pan alley standard ballad subbued rhythm lush vocal background crooning sentimental gospel vocal style started career in Chicago passionate voice crooning style cool smooth vocal approach of crooners tension between gospel fan base and his secular song output political involvement with the civil rights movement and black power movement supporter of malcom x and Muhammad ali Ray Charles Georgia on My Mind to be played in class tin pan alley standard from Georgia On My Mind what genre category would you put this song under It s kind of hard there is a lot of different influences He doesn t change lyrics but changes vocal style He is adding a lot of call and response with the piano like jazz Crooning style Background music is strings lost sight at age of 7 influenced by gospel and preaching tradition 1959 what id say the content of the song lyrics wasn t reaching to teenage audience like other songs were Cant stop loving you biggest country hit followed by what id say Controversy over vocalisms moans use of preaching techniques for songs evoking sex can t stop loving you 1 MUH 2019 Modern Popular Music Exam 2 Study Guide he was a triple threat mastery in jazz hymns in his piano Motown Records started by Berry Gordy in 1959 his vision is related to civil rights movement he wanted to attract the youth of America Hit Factory songwriting producing marketing organization One of the most successful black owned businesses in history of music industry tight financial artistic control sought out the widest possible audience of mainstream avoided direct evocations of blues and earlier African American popular styles in house recording band Funk Brothers My Girl by the Temptations to be played in class The temptations number 1 in 1965 romantic song verse chorus form ballad style initial bass and guitar hook example of Motown sound very clean produced fit for mainstream pop market each verse adds another instrumental layering of sound to evoke rising passion instrumental interlude before 3rd verse for exam remember the changes in verses Stax Records Rock artists advocated for soul artists they covered Rock aesthetic of authenticity Result Soul artists with two parallel audiences Otis Redding performed at Monterey Pop Festival Concept of Race still central to rock music Rivaled Motown also Motown s opposite in many ways Motown mainstream Sound of Young America Stax down home southern R B audience Sound of Black America Based in Memphis TN Founded in 1957 Satellite Records 1960 Style change renamed Stax Volt Records Integrated soul house band Booker T the MGs James Brown Godfather of Soul Profound influence on funk hip hop and all of pop Headstrong uncompromising maximalist emotion minimalist grooves Repitions of single words 2 MUH 2019 Modern Popular Music Exam 2 Study Guide Hypnotic syncopated syllables Eschewed chords for rhythm and timre Secular preaching Left structure of 50s R B behind Static harmony Rhythm and timbre Limited vocal melody First hit Please Please Please 1956 There was a Time 1968 Live at the Apollo 1963 The British Invasion Early 1960s time of consolidation formalization and re evaluation for rock n roll genres became very commercialize The Beatles The Beatles are one of the most influential groups for pop music Modeled themselves after buddy holly s crickets band influenced Paul McCartney john Lennon Ringo starr and George marrison lineup established by 1962 The Beatles wrote their own song which made them unique Best known song twist and shout By 1963 were writing much of their own material George martin prod ucer considered the 5th Beatle Lennon McCartney were the primary songwriters First Album Please Please Me Included 6 covers 8 originals They were already famous in Europe before US I wanna hold your hand first hit in US released by capital records represented the first time extreme adulation was bestowed on nonnative rock musicans First Rock N Roll Group every single member plays an equal roll they were a group of friends Back Up musicians were not interchangeable Allowed fans to identify with specific members of the group Every member sang played at least one instrument and wrote songs Overall merging of writing playing and singing Aligned with Rock N Roll tradition rather than Brill Building TPA approach Self Contained autonomous musical unit Different Tin Pan Alley Displayed themselves not as professional colleagues but just friends who happened to make music together Ability for fans to identify with them as peers or friends as alternative to parental older more conservative voices Rock went from being music for middle class youth to being performed by middle class youth Identified as songwriters and prioritized their publishing rights Instead of selling their publishing rights to a record company they created their own company Northern Lights Ltd 3 MUH 2019 Modern Popular Music Exam 2 Study Guide Please Please Me Beatle first top 10 hit in the uk wasn t successful in the us at first later was made popular alongside I wanna hold your hand straightforward up tempo love song short crisp efficient only 2 minutes long aaba form descending melody a is descending text painting contour melody meaning the text of itself Eleanor Rigby No 11 in 1966 Released as the B Side of Yellow Submarine Not really the smash hit of the previous 3 but the fact that it was on the B side of a novelty
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