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The World of Music7th Edition Part 2 Listening to American Music: Folk, Religious, Pop, and Jazz CHAPTER 6 American Popular Music American Popular Music Tin Pan Alley Country African American influenced Blues Gospel Motown Rap Pop/Pock Common Traits of Popular Music Music that is known by a majority of interested people at any given time Simple and Tuneful Singable Lyrics Repetitive Three (or less) chords (typically) Strong Beat and Regular Meter Clear Phrases Measuring a Song’s Popularity Then measured by sales of sheet music Now Radio/Jukebox play Billboard Magazine The Hit Parade Radio Show “Airplay” Sales LP’s/45’s Cassettes/8-Tracks CD’s Downloads Colonial American/Pre 20th Century Popular Music Opera Melodies Scottish and Irish Airs Hymns German Art Songs Songs by Stephen Foster Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) Oh Susanna! My Old Kentucky Home Old Black Joe Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair Come Where My Love Lies Desiring Beautiful Dreamer Minstrel Shows Minstrel Song First Distinctive American Music style Lively, Syncopated, “humorous” Written by and for Whites, sung by musicians in “Black Face” Attempted to portray the “Negro way of life” Often Stereotypical and not accurate Drawn from: Popular Music Folk Music Songs from Italian Opera Eventually written by Black Composers So it ended up as: Blacks, portraying Whites, who were portraying Blacks… Preceded Vaudeville Vaudeville Shows Similar to modern variety shows – typically a group of unrelated acts Singers Dancers Comedians Jugglers Child Performers Animals Dramatic Sketches Tin Pan Alley A place in NYC 28th street Typically in Verse-Chorus form Where to hear Tin Pan Alley Sons Vaudeville Broadway Musicals Films Nightclubs Radio and Recordings Jazz Concerts Tin Pan Alley Names Composers Jerome Kern Cole Porter George Gershwin Irving Berlin Richard Rodgers Performers Al Jolson Eddie Cantor Rudy Vallee Kate Smith Paul Whiteman Bing Crosby Broadway Musicals A Musical Play Acting Singing (but using ve