quinta-feira, 8 de novembro de 2012


Chapter 4: Influences do Blues in Rock, Jazz and Pop.


The influences of Blues in Pop

A "pop song" is first recorded as being used in 1926, to a piece of music "having popular appeal" like the Blues. Hatch and Mill ward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including country, blues and country music.

The main medium of pop music is usually between two and half and three and a half minutes in length, generally marked by a consistent and noticeable rhythmic element, a mainstream style and a simple traditional structure. Common variants include the verse-chorus form and the 32-bar form, with a focus on catchy melodies and hooks, and a chorus that contrasts melodically, rhythmically and harmonically with the verse. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment. The lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes - often love and romantic relationships -. Although there are notable exceptions
Harmony in pop music is often "that of classical European tonality, only more simple-minded." Clichés include the barbershop harmony (I e moving from a secondary dominant harmony to a dominant harmony, and then to the tonic) and blues scale influence of harmony. "The influence of the circle of fifths paradigm has declined since the mid-1950s. Harmonic languages of rock and soul have moved away from comprehensive influence of the dominant function.... There are other tendencies (perhaps also traceable to the use of a guitar as composing instrument) - pedal-point harmonies, root motion by diatonic step, modal harmonic and melodic organization - that point away from functional tonality and a tonal sense that is less directional, more free-floating. "

O Blues esta presente em todos os gêneros e estilos de musica.
É incrível o jeito que o Blues influencio este três gêneros . Não da pra imaginar o Rock sem a idéia de protesto que o Blues passa para nos.  O Pop sem a melodia e o amor do Blues. E principalmente o jazz que foi o mais influenciado, forma de escrita da letra até a  questão  do racismo. Foi uma surpresa para mim saber que o Blues deu origem a todos estes gêneros.
Bruna Ferreira

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