‘Popular’ Music

cut downular euphony is the broadest and as the name would suggest almost customary genre of medicine today. The term Popular Music was first used in the 19th century but it is the twentieth century that has seen the most developments in dadaular music. , the technology it uses and the media it is conveyed in The start of Pop Music is generally ideal to lose been in the 1950s with the advent of Rock n Roll. This is when music was first rattling brought to a mass audience watching on television.By the dismiss of the 1950s over half the crop upulation owned a television. Millions much than at the start of the decade. Popular bands were made normal because they were being brought to the masses. The 1960s saw a broaden in popular music with TV shows such as Top of The Pops video display a selection of hits from the vellicate 40 of the singles chart. This use of the media brought most styles of music that were popular to a mass audience. Later in the 1970s and 80s pop c artridge clips were introduced. Some such as Smash Hits were aimed at the junior proto(prenominal) teen end of the market while new(prenominal)s such as NME or New Musical Express were aimed at older more refined music fans to popular music. The late 1980s saw a flurry of new popular music magazines, many of which are still popular today, rock magazine Kerrang being a leading example. I intrust that the 1990s has seen a dumbing-down of many magazines such as Smash Hits . Now aimed at an even younger possibly pre-teen audience it is little more than a promotional vehicle for the groups and artists represented in its pages.The featured groups in these magazines are often from a new sub-genre that has developed from the 1980s to directly and is known as the manufactured band. In recent years the idea of manufactured bands or artists has been embraced into the reality TV format with shows such as Pop Idol present the development of a band or artist live on TV. I believe this in novation has been bad for music in general as the top 40 chart is now flooded with either reality TV winners, reality TV losers or artists who have gone through a similar process but have non been televised in doing so.In recent years music television has risen to the fore as a major part of an artists success. When MTV was launched in the early 80s who could have ideal that the music video would become the phenomenon it now is. Artists spend millions of pounds and hundreds of hours devising authorized their video is just right. In the early 21st century in that respect are now over 20 music channels showing e precise thing from rock to water faucet, from classical to teen pop. However nowadays all artists videos are so good that the music video seems to have gone full circle and now the music is more grand again.In the pop music industry there have been thousands of innovations over the years but no genre has surpassed the sub genre of rap for innovative ideas. Originating from street corners where young black males would battle against each other use lyrics rap is now a multi-billion pound industry with the leading players earning bulky fortunes. Rap has certainly come a long way since its small(a) beginnings. The 1980s were a massive decade of innovation for rap, a genre that had begun in the 70s. the start of the 80s rappers were still utilise manual mess upers to combine beats and mix tracks in the way that has become a hallmark of rap. By 1990 rappers were using digital mixers to blend beats more harmoniously. The result a more clear-cut sound that has perhaps made rap the music of the 90s. Pop music has come a long way since it begun in the 1950s. engineering and the media have perhaps had as larger part in pop musics success than the music itself. However I believe the media has become as well involved nowadays by creating stars themselves while not playing other artists music.After all popular music should be about the music not making th ings popular. However there is one dark cloud that looms over the organisations that run the music industry such as get in labels and the media. The Internet. engineering has now come so far that music files can now be swapped over the Internet through such software such as Napster or Kazaa. Now when a teenager hears a song he or she likes on the radio they dont blush to the record store. They rush to their computer. It is not just teenagers either. Millions of adults indulge in this type of music buccaneering every day.Even though they are ripping off the very artists they love. I believe however that the problem is not with the designers of Kazaa or with the flock who are downloading it. After all millions of people use these services, law perpetual ordinary people. The reason for this I believe is because people see record companies as big faceless corporations who dont really care about music or people, just making money. I think it is the music companies responsibility t o stop people using these ways of obtaining music by making popular music mor about music and less about money.