A History of Music in America

A History of Music in America：Country and Folk Music，Rock′n′Roll，Soul,Disco and Rap，New and Old，Punk or New Wave:loud and simple with a strong beat.

A History of Music in America

• Country and Folk Music
  • Country songs are often sad stories of love and broken hearts.
    • The music of working people.
  • Folk songs are like country songs but they are more traditional and more serious.
    • They dont just talk about love, they tell about the lives of ordinary people.
      • Woodie Guthrie
    • It is the most political of allmusic in America.
      • We Shall Overcome
• Rock′n′Roll
  • The 1950s were an exciting time in America.
    • America teenagers:R&B. Electric guitars. Loud and fast.
    • The early:slow romanticsongs
  • The king of Rock′n′Roll:Elvis Presley
• Soul,Disco and Rap
  • By the 1960s, rhythm&blues was called soul. It was always dance music.
  • In the 1970s a new dance music became popular——disco. It was records, not live.
  • Rap is a very skillful kind of fast street talk,with a strong rhythm. It bacame very popular in the 1980s.
• New and Old
  • Punk or New Wave:loud and simple with a strong beat.
  • In 1981 a new TV station MTV was started.
• Music of Today
  • There is a variety of music but central genre is pop.
  • In the present, music is written all to do with love; falling in love, breaking up,suggesting things, and an occasional other subject.
  • A lot of people listen to music, few actually hear what it is saying.
  • We have come very far in technology And taken a small step backward in song messages. Things will just keep getting more advanced and music will show us how.