POPULAR MUSIC

Is popular music really classical music?

I dare say this article, about the top 10 popular music legends, will put the cat among the proverbial pigeons.

(Written 10.2009) A look into subliminal influences popular music has on society and its' generation.

Personal Reflections on popular music and its effect on the heart and mind.

This paper considers whether or not contemporary popular music is responsible for revitalizing religiosity in America.

TV Commercials and Music Are Both Parts of Pop Culture. Music That Sells Albums Sells Products Too

Jewish singers have had a profoundly beneficial influence on the history of American popular music. The roots of that influence go back to prebiblical times.

This article considers how musicology and semiotics can be combined to study popular music texts that represents and improvement over traditional musicological analysis.

Music and television legend Dick Clark died April 18, after suffering a massive heart attack. Clark had been an icon in the music industry for many years, and as a music fan, here is what his contributions meant to generations of fans.

Back in the 1980s, in response to the growing popularity of MTV, Disney created a wonderful series of music videos that had their classic cartoons set to numerous rock songs.

Suggestions for serious study of popular styles are The Pointer System for the Piano, Books 1-5. These books are a fast, direct approach to the learning of chords and melodies.

A personal view of music through the eyes of a Generation X'er. It touches on many genres of music, live performances, landmark compositions, and the overall feel of rock and popular music.

The Beatles' 1966 Revolver is perhaps their most influential and significant album to date. Laden with experimentation, it signaled a change in rock and catalyzed numerous new directions for the genre to take.

These generations pioneered the use of modern microphone techniques in concert, radio, and recording performances to establish themselves as pure singers, not as singing comics or singing actors.

The modern pioneer generations, who rose to fame between the early 1900s and the 1920s, were versatile singing entertainers with roots in live theater performances, especially vaudeville and Broadway.

This article discussed the ways in which rock musicians, here identified as belonging to "electronic culture," use archives differently from artists who belong to a culture of alphabetic literacy.

A look at how music of different eras made people feel.

Julia Tygel is an extraordinary musician who has devoted her career and studies to reinterpret some of the most brilliant works of Brazilian popular music.

On a recent Saturday, I tuned in to the VH1 Top 20 Countdown, a weekly program that counts down the most popular music videos of the week. Here are my picks for the top 5 music videos for summer 2010.

Discussion of music throughout the years. It's inevitable changes and it's sudden downfall in quality.

Looking for that great music or video game title but don't want to pay the price of new, well look no further. Try one of these great stores for music cd's, DVD's, computer games or console games and even those older vinyl records.

As a music lover, as I am sure most of you reading this right now are, I would applaud and champion the phrase "save the music" as a noble and necessary idea. Let's face it, music is the universal language ...

The messages sent through music are constantly changing to reflect the social and cultural values of the times. Black musical expression needs to be mindful of the social dynamics within which it operates and the strong influence it has on our youth.

There are many ways to download music in today's day and age, but some may find it a bit more difficult than simply typing in a search engine for downloading music.

While rap, hip-hop and pop might dominate the nation's airwaves, the roots of American popular music cannot be denied. And when digging for roots, you need go no further than the blues, soul and jazz, which are some of America's greatest original artforms