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Music is found in every known culture, past and present, varying wildly between times and places. Around 50,000 years ago, early modern humans began to disperse from Africa, reaching all the habitable continents. Since all people of the world, including the most isolated tribal groups, have a form of music, it may be concluded that music is likely to have been present in the ancestral population prior to the dispersal of humans around the world. Consequently music may have been in existence for at least 50,000 years and the first music may have been invented in Africa and then evolved to become a fundamental constituent of human life. A culture's music is influenced by all other aspects of that culture, including social and economic organization and experience, climate, and access to technology. The emotions and ideas that music expresses, the situations in which music is played and listened to, and the attitudes toward music players and composers all vary between regions and periods. "Music history" is the distinct subfield of musicology and history which studies music (particularly Western art music) from a chronological perspective.
perform medieval music still exist, but in different forms. The flute was once made of wood rather than silver or other metal, and could be made as a side-blown or end-blown instrument. The recorder has more or less retained its past form. The gemshorn is similar to the recorder in having finger holes on its front, though it is actually a member of the ocarina family. One of the flute's predecessors, the pan flute, was popular in medieval times, and is possibly of Hellenic origin. This instrument's pipes were made of wood, and were graduated in length to produce different pitches.
It has also made use of technological innovation. In the 1940s improved microphone design allowed a more intimate singing style and ten or twenty years later inexpensive and more durable 45 r.p.m. records for singles "revolutionized the manner in which pop has been disseminated" and helped to move pop music to a record/radio/film star system. Another technological change was the widespread availability of television in the 1950s; with televised performances, "pop stars had to have a visual presence". In the 1960s, the introduction of inexpensive, portable transistor radios meant that teenagers could listen to music outside of the home. Multitrack recording (from the 1960s); and digital sampling (from the 1980s) have also been utilized as methods for the creation and elaboration of pop music. By the early 1980s, the promotion of pop music had been greatly affected by the rise of Music Television channels like MTV, which "favoured those artists such as Michael Jackson andMadonna who had a strong visual appeal". Pop music has been dominated by the American and (from the mid-1960s) British music industries, whose influence has made pop music something of an international monoculture, but most regions and countries have their own form of pop music, sometimes producing local versions of wider trends, and lending them local characteristics. Some of these trends (for example Europop) have had a significant impact of the development of the genre.
Singers:
Smiley, Jonas Brothers, Ne-yo, nelly furtado, Mariah Carey, Leona Lewis, Paula Seling, Andreea Banica, Andreea Balan, Sore, Holograf, Adam Lambert, Bruno Mars, Cheryl Cole, Enrique Iglesias , Katy Perry, Avril Lavigne, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Miley Cyrus, Shakira, Christina Aguilera, JLS, Gwen Stefani
Origins
Folk dance music is music accompanying traditional dance and may be contrasted with historical/classical, and popular/commercial dance music. An example of folk dance music in the United States is the old-time music played at square dances and contra dances. Brazilian dance music includes Samba, Pagode, and Forr.
By genre
Dance music works often bear the name of the corresponding dance, e.g. waltzes, the tango, the bolero, the can-can, minuets, salsa, various kinds of jigs and the breakdown. Other dance forms includecontradance, the merengue (Dominican Republic), and the cha-cha-cha. Often it is difficult to know whether the name of the music came first or the name of the dance.
Dansband
"Dansband" ("Dance band") is a term in Swedish for bands who play a kind of popular music. These terms came into use around 1970, and before that, many of the bands were classified as "pop groups". This type of music is mostly popular in the Nordic countries.
Electronic
By 1981, a new form of electronic dance music was developing. This music, made using electronics, is a style of popular music commonly played in dance music nightclubs, radio stations, shows and raves. During its gradual decline in the late 1970s, disco became influenced by computerization. Looping,sampling and seguing as found in disco continued to be used as creative techniques within Trance music, Techno music, and especially House music.
Singers
Inna, Elena Gheorghe, Edward Maya, Alexandra Stan, Whitney Houston, Hilary Duff, Flo Rida, Fergie , Michael Jackson, Chris Brown, Christina Aguilera, Ciara, Cher, Vanessa Hudgens, Mariah Carey, Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez, Usher
rock began to dominate rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop, and indie rock. Further fusion sub-genres have since emerged, including pop punk, rap rock, and rap metal, as well as conscious attempts to revisit rock's history, including the garage rock/post-punk and synthpop revivals at the beginning of the new millennium.
Singers:
The Doors, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Robert Plant, Jimmy Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Freddie Mercury
Singers:
Bill Haley (Rock around the clock /See You Latter Alligator/Shake Rattle and Roll) Johnny & The Hurricanes (Red River Rock) Little Richard (Long Tall Sally/Lucille/Tutti Frutti) Fats Domino (Aint That A Shame/Kansas City) Pat Boone (Speedy Gonzales) The Swinging Blue Jeans (Good Golly Miss Molly) The Platters (Great Pretender) Chubby Checker (Lets Twist Again)
Questions:
- Do you know the genres of music? - Which singers you know from every genre? - Which are the genres of music you listen to? - Who is the singer you like most ?