What is Popular Music?
________________ are categories of music distinguished from others by consistencies in their various music elements.
What are MUSIC GENRES?
_______________ was developed in the rural regions of the southern United States and finds its roots in the folk traditions of Western Europe coupled with the bluesy musical traditions of the enslaved people of the American South.
What is Country music?
___________, at its core, is meant to have a wide appeal and garner a large audience. In this sense, it can often be considered somewhat safe, without huge extremes in order to reach the largest audience.
What is Pop Music?
___________ is a popular genre developed by Black musicians of the post-WWII era that was heavier and more formulaic than jazz, and more reliant on electric instruments and loud, abrasive sounds.
What is ROCK (or “Rock and Roll” or “Rock ’n’ Roll”)?
_____________ is generally considered to be entirely spoken word with a simple, repetitive beat that keeps the spotlight on the lyrics.
What is RAP?
Most music consumer tend to gravitate toward a select few preferred music _______________.
What are genres?
Country music’s lyrics generally reflect every day________ life in America and are often storytelling in nature.
What is rural?
Pop songs are often intentionally ____________ with relatable lyrics and a generic, easy-to-consume, “feel-good” quality.
What is catchy and repetitive?
Although its popularity has run high for almost a ______________, Rock has always spoken to an individuality and rejection of societal norms.
What is hundred years?
_____________ is a term used more broadly to define music and other artistic expressions in the urban Black community.
What is Hip-Hop?
In class we focused on the top ________ most popular American genres.
What is 10?
Country music tends to be more _____________ and live than many other popular genres and can include additional folk instruments like acoustic guitar, fiddle (violin), banjo, steel guitar, dobro, and acoustic piano.
What is acoustic?
Because the term Pop casts such a wide net, oftentimes, Pop songs will skew toward one of the more unique genres so songs might be categorized as _________, ____________, ___________.
What are Pop-rock, or Pop-punk, or Country-pop?(getting one counts)
Rock music varies in its elements but almost always consists of a ________________ quality to performances and recordings.
What is high, unbridled energy, and a live, “in-your-face”?
_____________ is a soulful, sung genre where emotions tend to be conveyed through the energy of the vocalizations even more so than the lyrics.
What is R&B (which stands for Rhythm & Blues)?
America’s youngest generation of tracked music consumers, do not find the restrictive idea of genre appealing. This is Gen ______.
Vocalists in this genre tend to sing with full, robust voices and may utilize a southern “drawl” or “twang” in their accent as well as elements of a vocal technique called ___________where a singer transitions seamlessly between head and chest voice.
What is YODEL ?
The Pop genre is one of the most __________ - meaning it’s usually very obvious to tell what decade a song comes from since this genre follows trends more closely than other genres that hold more strictly to specific musical markers.
What is “dated”?
Other genres related to (or subgenres of) Rock include _____________________.
What are Punk, Metal, Alternative, Grunge, and Progressive Rock? (getting one counts)
Rap and Hip-Hop tracks tend to be ___________ in order to establish a flow of lyrics while R&B songs tend to be ______ to highlight the emotional elements and give the singer more space to move their voice.
What is FASTER and SLOWER?
_____________ can help consumers to make some assumptions about what they will hear when discovering new artists in specific genres.
What are Acoustic Fingerprints?
In 2009, in the United States, country music was the ______________ rush-hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second-most popular in the morning commute.
What is most-listened-to?
Rock and pop music remained roughly synonymous until the late ___________, after which pop became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible.
What is the 1960s?
While rock and roll's formative elements can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, the genre did not acquire its name until ___________.
What is the 1950's?
R&B can be traced back to the traditional __________ genre developed in the post-Civil War South with gospel-type elements associated with the Black American church.
What is Blues?