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IS309 Term Test 1

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What is Popular Music?

- Music that is mass-produced and disseminated by mass media
- Listened to by large numbers of Americans
- Draws upon a variety of pre-existing musical traditions
- Popular music context includes audiences, styles, institutions and how their interactions

4 "Themes" of Popular Music

- Listening
- Music and Identity
- Music and Technology
- Music Business

"Streams" of Popular Music

European-American
African-American
Latin-American

Johann Gottfried Herder

Invented the word Volkslied , "people-song" or "popular song"

General way music unfolds in time; A specific pattern of durations

Basic unit of measurement of time in music. Something we feel, dance, or tap to.

When one particular beat is emphasized

Beats grouped in TWO

Beats grouped in THREE

Rhythmic patterns in which the stresses occur on what are ordinarily weak beats, displacing or suspending the sense of metric regularity

Rate at which a musical composition proceeds, regulated by the speed of the beat of pulse to which it is performed; Overall "speed" of the music

The quality of "highness" or "lowness" of sound

Simultaneous sounding of different pitches

"Happy" sounding

The volume of sound, the loudness or softness of a musical passage

The "tone color" or characteristic sound of an instrument or voice, determined by its frequency and overtone components

An organized series of pitches used for music

- Disc jockey who was the 1st to use the term "Rock 'n' Roll" for commercial and generational purposes
- Promoted concert tours featuring black artists
- Promoted African American musicians despite resistance to racial integration
- Prosecuted for accepting payola
- Blackballed within the music business

The practice of recording a song that has previously been recorded by another artist or group

"Don't Be Cruel"

Elvis Presley's biggest hit

Elvis first had a contract with which famous record label in Memphis

ran Sun Records

"La Bamba" is sung in what language?

"La Bamba" represents which of the three "streams" of popular music?

How can the tempo of Chuck Berry's "Maybellene" be characterized?

Rhythmic, unsyncopated bass line

What country number is Chuck Berry's "Maybellene" loosely modeled on?

David Bowie, Elton John, and Prince

Which later male popular music artists did Little Richard pave the way for?

1) Music that is orally transmitted and closely bound up with the daily lives and customs of local communities.
2) Specifically, a popular music style of the late 1950s and early 1960s (sometimes called "urban folk music") featuring guitar playing singer/songwriters such as Bob Dylan.

A type of African-American vernacular music, used in jazz, rhythm and blues, rock, and other popular music

Type of blues featuring female soloist

Type of blues featuring male banjo or acoustic guitar player

Rhythm and Blues

Differentiates itself from blues in use of electrified instruments and emphasis on backbeats

A vigorous form of country and western music informed by the rhythms of black R&B and electric blues. This genre is exemplified by such artists as Carl Perkins and the young Elvis Presley

A term usually used to describe the popular teen-oriented music of the 1950s to the early 1960s, as opposed to the more consciously artistic "rock" that developed from the mid-1960s on

The simultaneous sounding of different pitches

Call and Response

A form of music in which a leader (either by vocals or on an instrument) sings or plays a pattern, and another singer, group of singers or another instrument, responds by singing or playing back the same pattern. This often occurs in the chorus of a song in genres such as blues, gospel and jazz band music

An accented beat, usually the first beat of a measure (or bar)

Accenting the beats against the pulse (e.g. clapping or drumming the 2nd and 4th beats of a steady 4 beat pulse)

A note or notes that precede the downbeat of a bar, usually by one beat

The last few bars in a musical phrase that set up the return to the beginning of the phrase. Typically found in blues and other genres in which vocal verses and improvisational instrumental solos are interspersed following one repeating phrase

Expressive notes or scalar inflections found primarily in blues and jazz that typically sound "flatter" or "lower" than the notes on a scale to which they are related

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