Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Movement of genre
Music Genre has a way of moving in several different was. For this blog I’m going to ask you to imagine some graphs in your head. The first graph is an onion ( you heard me) now picture the onion peeling off into different layer after layer. This concept is what I would use to describe the way rock moves. Rock by generations eventually peeled off to become alternative by the 21st century. However, music during this time become so diverse that eventual other peel of the onion came off to form indie.
Another way to describe the movement is i a circular movement. This movements contains the idea the music is fades away and reemerges as time goes by. Hip-Hop is an example, with its constant changing of the in style for hip hop as well as the resurgence of old styles that get thrown into the circular pool.
Then there is the branch method. I would like to consider this the giant family tree where all the genres hangout. Through time music has breached off not only as sub genres but into entire genres of there own. For example, American music formed from both folk and bluegrass. Country would eventually erupt from that as well as blues. Blues then had a couple of kids called jazz and rock and roll. The family tree branches on and on from there.
Then There is the Pop Circle. Now imagine you have a circle that doesn't care what the musical style is as long as it is at a certain bpm, the chords are simple, and its the current thing for consumers to follow. If you do not follow those instructions then you are simply not i the pop circle.
Art Vs. Pop Vs. Folk
Early days of classifying music is different than todays standards. The days before the internet (yeah there was a time with no internet, there were more board games) only experienced a handful of genres. these genre could be classified into three distinct subjects.
Folk: Songs and pieces that have been passed down in cultural through the centuries. Often basic, these songs would tell stories.
Art: These were classed as complexed music. Complexed music meaning the music they may have involved reading skills and advanced knowledge of music and instrumentation to play. This could also go along the lines of the complexity of the composition of the piece.
Pop: Music that is popular to the time era and to the majority of the population.
The problem with these class types is the vagueness in which they operate. Musical styles can be seen as a combination of Art, Folk, and Pop. So if you would imagine in your head a triangle for all three of these categories, now imagine the song “Hallelujah”. This song has a folk background in the sense that there is a story being told and it has been passed down by several art its from different generations. It falls the Art scheme due to the complexity of the piece, and it can be found on the movie Shrek (I think of Scottish ogres every time I hear that song). So this method of classifying genre does not work. What it does do however is show the effectiveness of the piece to last the test of time. If you think about, If you have a song that is past down from generation to generation, still holds weight in the general public, and is still seen as an artistic piece with viable complexed components, then you have a song that I will still be blasting in my hover car when I’m 80.
Bri-Guy 2072: “OH BABY YOU, YOU GOT WHAT I NEEEEEEED……..”
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