MUS 505 Lecture 1: Popular Music & Culture
18 Jan 2019
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Themes and streams of american popular music; minstrelsy: five themes, listening, music and identity, music and technology, the music business, centres and peripheries, mainstream music and alternative music. Streams of tradition: the sources of popular music: the european american stream, the african american stream, the latin american stream. Italian opera: dance music, group dancing to lively music, european folk musics, rhythmic, religious musics, christian hymns, jewish cantillations, all of these are what american popular music was born from. Instrumentation: the banjo and fiddle are african-american instruments, all of these exist in european american stream as well. The latin american stream: a mix of spanish, portuguese, french and african traditions, dance music comes out of this, 1900s cuban contradanza. Influences american music/early jazz: the latin tinge, 1910s tango, 1930s rumba, 1950s mambo, 1960s bossa nova. Americans: between 1830-1880 it was the most popular, largely been dropped out of our culture because its racist. It also keeps popping up in our culture.
