Theme:
Musical genres
Subject:
English
Teacher:
Dra. Yadira Vicua
Student:
Cristian auta
Estefana Caldern
Eduardo Hurtado
Marco Guerrero
Academic period:
March - July 2017
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Introduction:
In this work we are going to talk about music and its different musical genres the
changes that have been made either by history or modernity, their contribution to
the musical world, but we will deny that music is and will be the identification of
each person in their Life, as Leonard Bernstein says "Music can name the
unnameable and communicate with the unknown."
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MUSICAL GENRES
Rock And Roll
Rock and Roll emerged as a music style defined in the United States in the 1950s,
some elements of rock and roll can be heard on blues recordings as far back as
the 1920s. Of rock and roll combines elements of blues, boogie woogie, and jazz
with influences from the Appalachian, gospel, country and western specialized
folk music.
There are those who date the origin of rock and roll in 1954, with the record work
of Bill Haley and his group Bill Haley and the Haley's Comets, especially with
"Crazy Man Crazy" (1954) and his great success "Rock Around The Clock"
( 1955), which would have such influence on John Lennon. Others consider Little
Richard or Elvis Presley as the creator and also choose as the date of the
beginning of rock and roll in 1954, the year in which Presley released his first
album.
Each of its subgenres can be subtly mixed with each other and can also pick up
elements of each of its sub-ideologies, which makes rock a culture varied and
rich in thoughts and sounds. This movement implies attitude, commitment and
radicalism, which makes it more than a simple opinion, a lifestyle, a reason.
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LATIN MUSIC
Latin America has a musical tradition that goes back to its ethnic origins,
continues with its folkloric, popular and civic evolution, as well as with the
development of academic music from the Spanish and Portuguese colonization
that manifested a strong influence of the Jesuit Missions Given that they were the
ones who propagated the musical Baroque in the 18th century and throughout
our continent.
Already in the first decade of the twentieth century the "Manifesto of the Futurists"
declared: "We have reached the top of the centuries. Why look back? Time and
space died yesterday and we already live in the absolute, since we have already
created the eternal and omnipresent speed ".
To this thought Luigi Russolo added: "Futurism, rebellion of life, of intuition and
of feeling, spring infuriated and impetuous, declares inexorable war on doctrine,
individual and work that repeats, prolongs or exalts the past at the expense from
the future".
From these thoughts and throughout the twentieth century fundamental changes
in the definition of music will occur, the classical division between noise and
sound will disappear to give rise to the concept of "sound phenomenon"; The
tonal system will dissolve and by the middle of the twentieth century will begin
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the ascending, slow and constant way of the experiences of the concrete and
electronic music that will give place to a new musical notation that will replace the
traditional and new spellings that will transform the musical reading.
Pop:
Pop music is one that, aside from the instrumentation and technology applied for
its creation, preserves the formal structure "verse - refrain - verse", executed in a
simple, melodic, catchy, and usually assimilable way for the general public. Their
great differences with other styles are in the melodic and clear voices in the
foreground and linear and repeated percussions. It began in the twentieth century
in England in the 60s. Michael Jackson is the highest representative of this style.
Historically, the expression "pop music" was not understood as a musical genre
with specific musical characteristics. The cataloged as "Pop" music, Apocope of
"Popular Music", was understood as the opposite of the music of worship, to
classical music. Under this definition came styles like rock, funky, folk or even
jazz. Pop was understood as that great group of music for people with little
musical culture. Over time, pop has gained its meaning as an independent
musical style, releasing, in addition, the pejorative and negative sense to which it
was linked.
Reggae
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Reggae is a musical genre of Jamaican origin (the Jamaican adjective applies to
people). The term reggae is sometimes used extensively to refer to most
Jamaican rhythms, including ska, dub and rocksteady. The term is more
specifically used to indicate a particular style that originated after the
development of rocksteady. In this sense, reggae includes two sub-genres: roots
reggae and dancehall. The term reggae is a derivation of ragga, which in turn is
an abbreviation of raggamuffin, which in English means literally rags.
Country music
Country music is a musical style born of the influence of many other styles that
has its origin in the United States, mainly, and that due to the discographic and
cinematographic influence spreads quickly to English-scpeaking countries like
New Zealand, Australia and Canada, In the early 1930s.
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CONCLUSION
We can say that music is life for the soul and the body, over time has been
developing and innovating for all tastes since it relaxes the mind and soul giving
people joy.
