MUSC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Folk Music, Rock Music, Blues
17 Jan 2016
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Blues and jazz originated largely in african-american. Popular music, like folk music, often has storytelling and. There is, however, a great deal of influence that has traditionally. Popular music is a communal art, and the instrumentation tends. Jazz and rock are both essentially forms of popular music, or music that falls outside of the art music canon. Jazz, rock, and blues music share a common history. British isles existed alongside traditional african songs in colonial. They were based on folk ideas, as well as many harmonic ideas derived from art music of the period. Blues, jazz, and rock musicians have often borrowed extensively from classical music, and vice versa. The united states was the point of origin for jazz, blues, and rock music. Large waves of immigration in the early 20th century, and an american proclivity for innovation and distance from the elite nature of european classical music, have made the u. s a hotbed of popular music culture.
