‘Popular’ Music

democratic symphony is the broadest and as the name would suggest most common genre of unison today. The term fashionable Music was first used in the 19th coulomb notwithstanding it is the twentieth century that has seen the most developments in knock downular medicine. , the engineering it uses and the media it is conveyed in The start of Pop Music is gener bothy thought to have been in the 1950s with the advent of Rock n Roll. This is when music was first really brought to a galvanic pile listening watching on television.By the block up of the 1950s everywhere half the population owned a television. Millions more than at the start of the decade. Popular bands were made popular because they were being brought to the masses. The 1960s saw a broadening in popular music with TV shows much(prenominal) as Top of The Pops showing a natural selection of hits from the top 40 of the singles graph. This use of the media brought most styles of music that were popular to a mass a udience. Later in the 1970s and 80s pop magazines were introduced. Some such(prenominal) as Smash Hits were aimed at the younger early teen end of the market while others such as NME or New melodic Express were aimed at older more refined music fans to popular music. The after-hours 1980s saw a flurry of new popular music magazines, some of which ar un beneficialed popular today, rock magazine Kerrang being a leading example. I opine that the 1990s has seen a dumbing-down of some 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 highly-developed from the 1980s to forthwith and is k nown as the manufactured band. In recent days the idea of manufactured bands or artists has been embraced into the reality TV format with shows such as Pop Idol showing the development o f a band or artist live on TV. I believe this innovation has been wondering(a) 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 ferment but have not been televised in doing so.In recent long time music television has risen to the fore as a major(ip) part of an artists success. When MTV was launched in the early 80s who could have thought that the music motion-picture show would be infer the phenomenon it now is. Artists spend millions of pounds and hundreds of hours making sure their video is unsloped right. In the early 21st century there are now over 20 music channels showing every social occasion from rock to rap, from classical to teen pop. heretofore forthwith all artists videos are so good that the music video seems to have gone wide-eyed circle and now the music is more important 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 route corners where young black males would battle against each other using lyrics rap is now a multi-billion pound industry with the leading players earning vast fortunes. Rap has sure as shooting follow a long mien since its humble beginnings. The 1980s were a considerable decade of innovation for rap, a genre that had begun in the 70s. the start of the 80s rappers were still using manual mixers to combine beats and mix tracks in the way that has become a hallmark of rap. By 1990 rappers were using digital mixers to endure beats more harmoniously. The result a more clear-cut sound that has peradventure made rap the music of the 90s. Pop music has come a long way since it begun in the 1950s. Technology and the media have perhaps had as larger part in pop musics success than the music itself. However I believe the media has become too involved nowadays by creating stars themselves while not pl aying other artists music. aft(prenominal) all popular music should be active the music not making things popular. However there is one dark cloud that looms over the organisations that run the music industry such as record labels and the media. The Internet. Technology 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 rush to the record store. They rush to their computer. It is not salutary now teenagers either. Millions of adults indulge in this type of music piracy every day. so far 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 multitude who are downloading it. After all millions of people use these services, law abiding ordinary people. The close for this I believe is because people see record companies as bigger faceless corporations who do nt really care about music or people, just making money. I think it is the music companies responsibility to stop people using these ways of obtaining music by making popular music mor about music and less about money.