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 ID: 258287 Posts: 283 | Date: 2009-02-24 20:04 I have pop selected in preferrences in my profile because I do listen to some
pop music, and I mean mainstream electric pop, not that alternative electronic
garbage!
So why have admin got them grouped together when they are totally
separate categories?
rap, hip hop, r n b, and your "so called" dance are all alternative
(sub-pop) type, they are definately not mainstream, and never were or
will be!
We need these categories separated & fixed!! |
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 ID: 182744 Posts: 1903 | Date: 2009-02-25 11:26 Melissa Robertson:
I have pop selected in preferrences in my profile because I do listen to some
pop music, and I mean mainstream electric pop, not that alternative electronic
garbage!
So why have admin got them grouped together when they are totally
separate categories?
rap, hip hop, r n b, and your "so called" dance are all alternative
(sub-pop) type, they are definately not mainstream, and never were or
will be!
We need these categories separated & fixed!!
Rap, hip hip and R&B do not even have the same musical origins, although rap and
hip hop share several common roots, including racial origin, all the way back to
slavery. Rap and Hip Hop can hardly be classed as alternative or sub-pop as they
existed BEFORE pop music existed. And yes...I was alive when pop music was
introduced. My dad has rap and hip hop 78s of these musical forms from the
1940s. For 35 years e DJ'd an old timers radio program. His living room is still
stacked from floor to ceiling with tapes, 8 tracks, reel-to-reel, platters, etc.
of music back to the beginnings of the recording industry.
Don't let me go over to his house and grab you a Zoot-Suit rap from 1938!
Jurgta's classifications are correct. Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should  |
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 ID: 274252 Posts: 296 | Date: 2009-02-25 13:00 When I was 14 I used to just switch on the national new music station & I never
cared for genre, in fact genre is a word I only got into the habit of using when
I started putting cd's on the media player, back then if I liked the sound of it
I listened to it or bought the record, now the music industry loved grouping
this sound & that sound together, sub-pop as far as I was aware came from the
US, I had never heard of that one till around 1993/94, I thought that was
another name for fusion
Fusion is like Anthrax & public enemy or Aerosmith & run dmc...
Genre grouping of different sounds varies from one place to another, the only
exception being rock, metal, punk & death metal being the same everywhere, in
the UK house/trance/rap/r'n'b/hip-hop are grouped together as alternative...
Where as rock & metal, along with rock orientated electric pop & "indie" are the
mainstream in the UK & Holland right now... everything changes all the time,
that's progress
Indie is basically like depeche mode or happy mondays... just record any sound
they like & don't stick to genre labels and are mainly on independant record
labels.
I noticed nobody mentioned reggae here? Bob Marley, UB40, Maxi Priest |
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ID: 182744 Posts: 1903 | Date: 2009-02-25 20:15 Gaz Young:
I noticed nobody mentioned reggae here? Bob Marley, UB40, Maxi Priest
What? And confuse the issue with reggae, ska, dance hall, rumba, reggaeton,
quelbe, kiaso, conga, calypso, skant, criolla, rock steady, benta, funji,
abakua, timba, dub, bachata, sarbanda, chacona, aguinaldo, chutney, soca....
If people do not realize that rap, as a US black art form was around from
slavery days, how much more difficult will it be to accept the fact that
Caribbean music changed European music as far back as the 1600s. Today's rap
styles were popularized by Caribbean imports to the US.
People know what the media tells them. People listen to music, thinking it is
reggae, when it is not.
Most of today's music, from R&B to Jazz, to the native sounds of Vietnam to
Scandinavia to the UK, to Hawaii and elsewhere, owe their sound in part to the
various Indian tribes of the Caribbean and later, the Africans who were forced
to settle the region.
I will debate the matter with someone who knows music history as opposed to
someone who only knows the music the media tells them to listen to. I grew up
playing every type of music on the steel pan for tourists. Believe me, when you
play Mozart in a 60 member steel pan orchestra, you had better know your musical
styles.
(By the way...can anyone name the instruments typically used in a steel
orchestra? Bob Marley was a player of the steel drum and used various types in
many of his reggae, ska and other musics that he is popular for. My steel band,
the Charlotte Amalie High School Mello Hawks, played his song "Coming In From
the Cold" as his requiem when he died.) Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should |
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 ID: 246345 Posts: 668 | Date: 2009-03-13 17:44 What about merengue and bachata are great, any tipe of music is great as log as
U feel good when U listen |
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 ID: 235463 Posts: 395 | Date: 2009-10-23 14:26 Rap actually has it's roots in pop and rock in the early seventies. At that
time. you had songs like "Life is a Rock (Though the Radio Rolled Me), and The
Guess Who favorite "New Mother Nature".
The term pop music is actually shortened from the term popular music. Popular
music encompassed most music that people liked to listen to. With the advent of
music genres such as acid rock and heavy metal, pop music started to become the
lighter side of rock. Pop music has pretty much been brought into the light rock
dance genre. Though the lines have pretty much stabilized, pop music has always
been kinda hard to clarify.
I hope this helps. |
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ID: 235463 Posts: 395 | Date: 2009-10-23 14:49 I'm sorry, but I got a title wrong. It's "Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled
Me). |
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ID: 235463 Posts: 395 | Date: 2009-10-24 18:07 KaribbeanSee:
[Gaz Young: ...]
(By the way...can anyone name the instruments typically used in a steel
orchestra? Bob Marley was a player of the steel drum and used various types in
many of his reggae, ska and other musics that he is popular for. My steel band,
the Charlotte Amalie High School Mello Hawks, played his song "Coming In From
the Cold" as his requiem when he died.)
Which instruments do you want named? you already named the steel drum which is
the staple instrument of the steel band. |
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