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Rap vs. Pop music

Works Cited

History

Yudkin, Jeremy, Understanding Music. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996. Print

  • Pop is short for polular music
  • Not specifically applied until the middle of the 20th century.
  • The first major pop stars were the Crooners (Frank Sinatra)
  • Music Charts developed in 1952

Form

Pop: Typically sectional, 32 bar form and ABBA form. Verse, pre-chorus, chorus, verse, pre-chorus, bridge, verse, chorus.

Rap: Two subunits, "gangsta" rap and "pop"

"Can you Name the Basic Elements of Music?" About.com

Music Education. N.p., n.d. Web 31 January, 2017

Dynamics

Pop Music Timeline

Rap and pop music range anywhere from mezzo piano to mezzo forte. Depending on the song and artist

  • 1956 Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars
  • 1957 John Lennon meets Paul McCartney
  • 1957 The first official Quarry Men performance
  • 1958 Paul McCartney invited George Harrison to watch the Quarry Men
  • Late 1950s The English rock music group Beatles was formed
  • 1960 Pete Best joins the Beatles
  • The American country singer Patsy Cline becomes a mainstream pop music hit
  • 1972 Michael Jackson's first solo hit "Ben" reaches no. 1
  • 1974 Michael Jackson introduces "The Robot"
  • 1983 Red Hot Chili Pepper male group is formed
  • 1985 Britney Spears emerges as a star of the music world
  • 1990 Various famous groups made pop music more popular
  • 1993 Radiohead releases first studio album, "Pablo Honey"
  • 1998 Coldplay formed
  • 2002 Increased impact of television shows
  • 2009 Death of Michael Jackson (King of Pop)
  • Present Lady Gaga, Pink, Ariana Grande, Alessia Cara, Tori Kelly, Taylor Swift are just a few of the famous female artists topping the charts

Rythm

The tempo for rap music has a faster tempo. Pop is at an andante speed while rap is more allegro.

History

Both pop and rap music vary between douple and triple meter

Top Rap groups (just to name a few

  • Music roots back to African influence
  • Rhythm predominates to the point where melody and harmony nearly disappear
  • Rap developed on the poor, crime-ridden streets of inner cities
  • 1980s - Emerging out of hardcore rap. It became the most successful form of hip hop in the late 1980s and early 1990s
  • 1982 - The release of the 1st sociopolitical rap song
  • 1990s - Crunk rap developed and rap matured from an old school style to a new school style
  • Run D.M.C
  • Public Enemy
  • 2Pac
  • Eric B & Rakim
  • Jay Z
  • Outkast
  • N.W.A
  • Notorious B.I.G
  • Grandmaster Flash the Furious Five
  • Eminem
  • Drake
  • Kanye West
  • Ludacris
  • Rae Sremmurd
  • Logic
  • A$AP Rocky
  • Chance The Rapper
  • J. Cole
  • Kendrick Lamar
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