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Arun Bose
UWRT-1102-041
Professor Ingram
Reflection
was interested in the relationship between culture and popular music. The
term, pop music, was coined sometime in the 1950s and has since come
to mean everything from rock n roll to funk music to rap. Glenn McDonald, a
principal engineer at The Echo Nest, analyzed the 5,000 more popular songs
since 1950 and found that in the past 70 years, music has grown to be
louder, faster, less organic, and overall; music written today sounds very
research what is causing popular music to change. I have since come to the
conclusion that pop music changes and develops over time in response to
enjoys music that at one point in time was considered pop. While not
everyone necessarily enjoys current Top 40 songs heard on the radio, due to
the substantial evolution of pop music over time, the term pop music, has
and authors. The difficulty that I found in my research was that while there is
there is very little research answering the ever present why. For example,
he analyzed Billboard Top 100 hits of the past 50 years and created graphs to
what has caused lyrics to change (Lamm). I found many different sources
that focused on how lyrics and the overall sound of pop music have changed
over time, however I found very few sources that explained what caused
these changes.
interactive timeline. I chose these genres because I realized quite early that
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a genre that simply involved text would simply not suffice for a project
within the presentation itself, allowing the audience to see and hear the
overtime. I also added active presidents into the timeline to help better
outline the political events that were occurring at the time. A large amount of
music has been written in direct response to political events such as war,
World War II had a very direct impact on the musical climate of the time
describes the point that I was trying to make in my research, where the
events.
they would lose a significant amount of their efficiency should they be read
Both my timeline and my presentation were very text heavy which utilized
the linguistic mode, but they were also very visual and contained a variety of
graphics to help express my findings which utilized the visual and spatial
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thought that a logical appeal through statistics and specific examples would
over time and through my presentation allowing the audience to hear the
pertaining to my topic. However, my project did lack any sort of Kairos being
that my projects entire point was that pop music is constantly changing and
evolving. There is very little reason why it would be important for the
change indefinitely.
would make sure to choose a topic that catered to a more specific target
demographic and I would also try to choose a message that could be better
Works Cited
lamm/2014/02/an-analysis-of-money-love-and-sex-in-music.
http://www.scaruffi.com/history/pop50.html.
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