The Creation of the Popular Song and the Spread of Jazz (Trailer)
Jazz was the first great American musical genre, and deeply influential to American culture in the early 20th century. Join in as we explore the influences and origins of the genre, how it was shaped by recording technology and commercialisation, some of its most important stylistic conventions, and how aspects of jazz performance remain in popular music many decades after its peak.
A Brief History of Music
Exploring the evolution of western popular music, and the social, cultural and technological contexts it exists within. this podcast aims to study and examine an oft-ignored but very prevalent aspect of music history: popular music. While degraded as ‘low art’, popular music, by definition, passes the test of common approval and thus is a powerful tool for understanding the characteristics of a particular society at a particular time. Join me as I dive into four of the most predominant genres of the 20th century - jazz, blues, rock, and hip-hop - and analyse what their successes mean to us.
- No. of episodes: 5
- Latest episode: 2020-11-30
- Music Music History
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