Popular Music In The 19th Century
In the 19th century, there were waves of immigration entering the US from all areas of the European countries that helped enrich America's popular music culture. The immigrants all shared their experience, culture, and religion into the American stream of music. American popular music grew and spread across the US all throughout the 19th century. There were many events going on in the 19th century that has been correlated into new music. This paper will reflect on the different types of popular music throughout the century, and how Disco Music and Electronic Dance Music of American music are similar and how they are different. There are various types of popular music that helped form the American culture in the 19th century. A popular representation of this period that was a form of entertainment where men would darken their skin using burnt cork or cole to portray African American men, was called Minstrelsy. Today they would find it offensive to the standards now, they used it as a high form of entertainment and a new form of music. In between the Revolution and the Civil War had Patriotic Songs that were a new form of popular music endured during this time. Patriotic Songs were associated with events and happenings going on during that time, some were political and some were for self expression.
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All of the genres developed help show the culture, time, expression and experiences in their sound and content. When comparing the similarities and differences between Disco music and Electronic dance music, there were many similarities that tied into the two genres, but have differences and make the certain genre memorable in its own way. They each incorporate rock and jazz, and are both performed to make people dance, but have their own melody and tone to differentiate the two
When there are harder times occurring, …show more content…
All of the genres developed help show the culture, time, expression and experiences in their sound and content. When comparing the similarities and differences between Disco music and Electronic dance music, there were many similarities that tied into the two genres, but have differences and make the certain genre memorable in its own way. They each incorporate rock and jazz, and are both performed to make people dance, but have their own melody and tone to differentiate the two