Rhythm and Blues as we all know it is a a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when “urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat” was becoming more popular. The meaning of R&B changed arbitrarily from the 1950′s up to now.
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Posted by volume on November 30th, 2011 :: Filed under
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Pop music is usually known as the music made especially for the youth market; it is basically composed of relatively short, simple songs that use innovations to produce new sounds and variations based on existing themes. It has influences that came from other forms but is most particularly associated with rock and roll and alternative music. Upon its arrival in the limelight during the 60’s, The Rolling Stone; an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962, ever since dominated the scene and created a name for itself. But the group was not alone; along side with them was the emergence of another English rock band called the Beatles; which on the other hand paved its way to the limelight from playing at gigs across the United Kingdom.
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Posted by volume on November 23rd, 2011 :: Filed under
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With the beat that comes along with Hip Hop as a listener you can’t escape the fact that you feel a certain grove whenever the song hits your ears.
With the emergence of Hip Hop music comes the dawn of Hip Hop dancing, you’ve probably got a glimpse of the exhilarating dance moves by Michael Jackson when he entered the limelight in the 80′s, where the swagger of his hips makes you feel the essence of his music. You can say that you can still feel it today but nothing comes close to what Hip Hop can make out of you. You’ve probably seen African-Americans dancing to the groove of the music in your lifetime.
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Posted by volume on November 16th, 2011 :: Filed under
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If you’re the kind that listens to the creations of Jay-Z, Kanye West, Eminem, Dr. Dre or Snoop Dogg, you’re probably oriented with the top hip-hop music icons for the past 10 years. And like everybody else, you might be thinking how the magic happened when it comes to their success from being normal citizens to moguls. Jay-Z, for example, has sold nearly 40 million albums, with this number in mind, there’s a huge list of songs to go through when making any sort of list for this guy.
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Posted by volume on November 9th, 2011 :: Filed under
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If you’re an avid fan of Jay-Z, Eminem, 2-Pac or Lil-Wayne etc.; you probably want to know where the music started that’s coming out from their mouths all started. To give you a glimpse of its history, in the 70′s, the segregation policy between the Whites and African-Americans was still implemented and it is common knowledge that it wasn’t an easy for the Africans-Americans that time since discrimination was still everywhere.
It all began at the Bronx in New York where Rap music was the result of the frustration of the African-Americans.
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Posted by volume on November 2nd, 2011 :: Filed under
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