Evolution Of American Music

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There are many different styles and forms of music, that have their own distinct sound. Each sound that is heard is the sound of a culture, each piece of music has a tie to places, ideas, thoughts and feelings based on opinions. This often results in stereotyping and portraying the music and culture with an inaccurate view, of the larger population of the cultures in which the music has originated from. Many times the way a culture advertises itself, and is portrayed, is the visual that is reflected in their music, This will be expressed through the steel pans of the Caribbean, Aboriginal music, and classical music.

When we hear a genre a music we distinctively make a connection to it in someway, whether it is the artist or group, or …show more content…

The government did this out of fear for themselves and the people, as they suspected that the hand drums were going to be used as a type of secret tribal communication to rise in rebellion against the government's rule. In 1937 the steel ‘pan’ was beginning to become “popular”especially in bands, the people would use anything that was metal; from a dust pan, scrap metal , pans and old oil drums. The bands that played the dust pan, pans, and old oil drums were often looked down upon by the upper class, as they considered it as street music, but Trinidads, and Tobago's did not have enough money to buy or even make instruments to play, so they had to use what was available to them. Of course with playing the objects that were available to the people they then could distinguish what object created a nicer sound, they noticed that the oil drums with its indentations created different sounds were penetrated within specific areas. This started the creation of the steel pans, they were made out of 55 gallon oil drums and are still are today. The steel pan is now the leading traditional instrument of the Caribbean and is played with a sense of pride, being that it is an instrument that originated from the people of the lower class. Since the steel pan is played with such great pride being that it came from the lower class, it has …show more content…

Today people portray classical music as a boring genre of music that is for the older generations, and for the rich and higher class as it is a black tie event. Classical music has always been known to be an expensive luxury since the sixteenth and seventeenth century, but that does not mean that it is for a specific social class, as music is for everyone. Classical music is played everywhere everyday on the radio, in stores etc but some people think that it takes knowledge to be able to understand the music that is being played “No special knowledge is necessary to get to know [Classical music] and love it- but people who invest a little reading and thought will know it faster and better and will love it more”. Music in general is meant to make people feel emotion, feel what the artists is feeling and to listen to the message being told. Throughout classical music or any instrumental music at all, it is easy to become engaged and feel emotion through the dynamics and the tone of the instruments itself with no words necessary. With most of classical music being instrumental, could very well be one of the reasons of why the audience ranges of classical concerts are the age of fifty plus, this is because people nowadays are more interested in popular culture as it is what's trending now and is popular. The

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