POPUL AR MUSIC

DA M I A R , A L O R A K R I S T I N E M .
TA B I L O G , J O U G E N M A E E .
M A N I O , M Y K A W I N D E L P.
B A G O N G O N , H A N N A H F A R A H K AY E L .
POPULAR MUSIC
• It means “music of the populace,” similar to traditional folk music
of the past.

• Developed in the 20th century.

• Generally consisted of music for entertainment of large numbers

of people.

• Popular music is now shared by the entire world, whether

on radio or in live performances.
BALLADS
• Originated as an expressive folksong in narrative verse with text
dealing typically about love.
• The word is derived both from the medieval French
“chanson balladee” and “ballade” which refers to a dancing
song.
• Used by poets and composers since 18th century and became a slow
popular love song in 19th century.
• Today the term ballad now refers to a love song in a slightly
pop or rock style.
TODAY’S CHARACTERISTICS OF
BALLADS
BLUES BALLADS

• This is a fusion of Anglo-American and Afro-American styles from

the 19th century that deals with the anti-heroes resisting authority.

• The form emphasizes the character of the performer

more than the narrative content

• Accompanied by the banjo or guitar.

POP STANDARD AND JAZZ BALLADS

• This is a blues style built from a single verse of 16 bars ending on

the dominant or half-cadence, followed by a refrain/chorus part of
16 or 32 bars in AABA form.

• The B section acts as the bridge, and the piece normally

ends with a brief coda.
SOME ENDURING POP STANDARD AND
JAZZ BALLADS INCLUDE

• The Man I Love (George Gershwin)

• Always (Irving Berlin)
• In a Sentimental Mood (Duke Ellington)
POP AND ROCK BALLADS
• An emotional love song with suggestions of folk music.
• This style is sometimes applied to strophic story-
songs such as Don Mclean’s “American Pie”
STANDARDS
• In music, the term “standard” is used to denote the most
popular and enduring songs from a particular genre or
style.

• Its style is mostly in a slow or moderate tempo with a

relaxed mood.

• It also features highly singable melodies within the range and

technical capacity of the everyday listener.
AMONG THE FOREMOST PROPONENTS
OF THIS STYLE WAS;
FRANK SINATRA
• Also known as “Ol Blue Eyes”,
“Chairman of the Board”, or “The
Voice”
• His genre was categorized as traditional pop
and jazz.
• He was a successful singer, actor producer,
director, and conductor.
• His hit singles include My Way and
Strangers in the Night.
 NAT KING COLE
• Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of
his popular musical fame to his soothing baritone
voice, which he used to perform in big band, vocal
jazz, swing. traditional pop, and jump blues genres.
• He was the first black American to host his
own television show and maintained
worldwide popularity over 40 years past his
death.
• He is widely considered “one of the most
important musical personalities in United
States history”.
• His hit songs include Unforgettable, Mona Lisa, and
Too Young.
 MATT MONROE
• Was an English singer who became one of the
popular entertainers in the international
music scene during the 1960s.
• Throughout his 30-year career, he filled cabarets,
nightclubs, music halls, and stadia in Australia, Japan,
Philippines, Hong Kong, Africa, Middle East, Europe,
and the Americas.
• Among his hit singles included Portrait of My Love,
Softly as I Leave You, Walk Away, Born Free, which
became his signature song, and the James Bond
theme From Russia with Love
OTHER POPULAR SINGERS OF
STANDARDS WERE;
Perry Como Bing Crosby Andy Williams
For the Good Times As Time Goes by Love Story
Sammy Davis Jr. Doris Day Patti Page
I’ve Gotta be Me Dream a Little Dream of Me The Tennessee Waltz &
Changing Partners
Barbra Streisand Paul Anka
Evergreen Put Your Head on My Shoulder
ROCK AND ROLL
• It's a hugely popular song form in the United States during
the late 1940’s to the 1950’s.
• It combined Afro-American forms such as the blues, jump blues,
jazz, and gospel music with the Western swing and country music.
• The lead instruments were the piano and saxophone, but
these were eventually replaced by modern instruments.
• In its classic form, rock and roll employed one or two electric
guitars (lead, rhythm), a string bass or bass guitar, and a set of
drums that provided the rhythmic pattern.
ROCK AND ROLL
• This form came during the age of technological change
when electric guitars were supplemented by amplifiers
and microphones to raise the volume.

• Its name derived from the mot of a sonhip on the ocean,

“rock and roll.”

• The greatest exponent of the rock and roll style was the legendary
Elvis Presley.
ELVIS PRESLEY
• His hit songs such as Heartbreak Hotel and blue
Suede Shoes were complemented by his good
looks and elaborate movements that included
hugging the microphone as he sang.

• His style was the precursor of the British

band known as The Beatles, whose
compositions further boosted rock and roll
as the favorite genre of the times.
THE BEATLES

• Examples of The Beatles’ songs in

this genre are I Saw Her Standing
There, Get Back, While My Guitar
Gently Weeps, Rock and Roll
Music, and Ticket to Ride.
THE BEATLES’ JOHN LENNON AND PAUL
MCCARTNEY AS
COMPOSERS/SONGWRITERS
 JOHN LENNON (1940-1980)
• He was an English musician, singer, performer,
songwriter and co-songwriter.
• He was born and raised in Liverpool, England.
• He rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of
the rock band The Beatles, which was considered as
“the most commercially successful band in the
history of popular music.”
• Lennon formed as songwriting partnership with Paul
McCartney, which is considered as “one of the most
celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th
century.”
JOHN LENNON (1940-1980)
• Lennon’s hit compositions for the Beatles
include Strawberry Fields Forever, Help, In
My Life, Tomorrow Never Knows, Rain,
Norwegian Road, I am the Walrus, Come
Together,You’ve Got to Hide Your Love
Away, and Happiness is a Warm Gun.

• When The Beatles disbanded in 1970,

Lennon embarked on a solo career.
 JOHN LENNON (1940-1980)
• Among his solo top billboard hits include Imagine,
Mind Games, Power to the People, Dream,
Nobody Told Me, Watching the Wheels, Woman,
Whatever Gets You Through the Night, and
Instant Karma.
• In 2002, according to a BBC poll on the 100
Greatest Britons, John was voted in eighth place.
• In 2008, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him the
“fifth-greatest singer of all time.”
• He was posthumously inducted into the
Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice as a
member of The Beatles in 1988 and as a
solo artist in 1994.
 SIR JAMES PAUL MCCARTNEY (1942)
• Is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, co-
writer, and composer.
• Paul gained worldwide popularity and fame as a member
of The Beatles, which included John Lennon, George
Harrison and Ringo Starr.
• McCartney has been “recognized as one of the
most successful composers and performers of all
time, with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100
million albums and 100 million singles of his work
with the Beatles and as a solo artist.”
• McCartney was a two-time inductee into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Beatles in 1988,
and as a solo artist in 1999.
 SIR JAMES PAUL MCCARTNEY (1942)
• He is a 21-time Grammy Award winner having
won both individually and with The Beatles.
• He has written or co-written 32 songs that have reached
number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
• As of 2014, McCartney had sold more than “15.5 million
RIAA-certified units” in the United States.
• His top hit compositions for The Beatles include Hey
Jude, Fool on the Hill, I’ll Follow the Sun, I Will, I Saw Her
Standing There, All My Loving, Paperback Writer, Michelle,
Eleanor Rigby, We Can Work It Out; And I Love Her,
Here, There, Everywhere, Penny Lane and others.
DISCO (1970)
• Disco music pertained to rock music that was more danceable, thus
leading to the establishment of venues for public dancing also called
discos.
• The term disco is originated from the French word
“discotheque” which means a library for phonograph
records.
• The disco style had a soaring and reverberating sound rhythmically
controlled by a steady beat (usually meter) for ease of dancing, and
accompanied by strings, horns, electric guitars, and electric pianos or
synthesizers.
FAMOUS FIGURES OF THE
DISCO GENRE INCLUDE;
• Donna Summer (“The Queen of Disco”)
Hot Stuff
The Bee Gees ABBA
Night Fever Dancing Queen

Earth, Wind and Fire

Boogie Wonderland
 POP MUSIC
• Parallel with the disco era, other pop
music superstars continued to emerge.

• Among them were Neil Sedaka (Laughter in the

Rain), Diana Ross and the Supremes(Stop in the
Name of Love), Olivia Newton John (Hopelessly
Devoted to You), Stevie Wonder (You Are the
Sunshine of My Life), Elton John (Skyline Pigeon),
The Carpenters (We’ve Only Just Begun), and
Barry Manilow (Mandy).
 MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON
• The King of Pop” he is the most popular solo
performer of all time.
• He was born on August 29, 1958 and died on June 25,
2009.
• He was an American recording artist, entertainer, singer-
songwriter, record producer, musical arranger, dancer,
choreographer, actor, businessman, and philanthropist.
• The seventh child of the Jackson family, he made his debut
as an entertainer in 1968 as a member of The Jackson 5.
• He then began a solo career in 1971 while still a member
of the group and was referred to as the "King of Pop" in
subsequent years.
 MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON
• Jackson's 1982 album Thriller remains the world's best-
selling album of all time, and four of his other solo studio
albums are among the world's best-selling records: Off the
Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), and History
(1995).
• In the early 1980s, he became a dominant figure in American
popular music and culture.
• He was the first African American entertainer to
amass a strong crossover following on MTV
• The popularity of his music videos airing on MTV, such as
Beat It, Billie Jean, and Thriller—widely credited with
transforming the music video from a promotional tool
• into an art form—helped bring the relatively new channel to
fame.
 MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON
• With stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of
physically complicated dance techniques, such as the “robot” and the “moonwalk.”
• His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced many hip hop, pop music,
and contemporary R&B artists across several generations world-wide.
• Jackson donated and raised millions of dollars for beneficial causes
through his “Heal the World Foundation,” charity singles, and support of
39 charities.
• One of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame twice, his other achievements include “Multiple Guinness
World Records”—including one for "Most Successful Entertainer of All
Time"—13 Grammy Awards, 13 number one singles in his solo career,
and the sale of 750 million records worldwide.
MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON
• Jackson is one of the world’s most famous artists because of his
highly successful career which made him a part of popular culture
for nearly four decades.

• At the time of his death, Jackson was preparing for “This Is It,” a series of 50
concerts that would have been held at The O2 arena in London beginning July
13, 2009, and a world tour to follow after the series of concerts.

• After Michael Jackson's death, Billboard's entire top nine positions on

Billboard's Top Pop Catalog Albums chart housed Jackson related titles on July
1, 2009.
TODAY’S POP MUSIC IDOLS

• As the 21st century continues to unfold, more and more

pop groups emerge spanning an entire range of musical
styles and genres.
THERE ARE MUSIC GROUPS LIKE;
• Black Eyed Peas
• K Pop (Korean)
• My Chemical Romance
• Fall Out Boys
• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
•Train
• Maroon 5
• One Direction
SOLO PERFORMERS INCLUDE;

•Adele
• Taylor Swift

• Ed Sheeran
• Rihanna

• Chris Brown
• Ariana Grande

• Justin Beiber
• Miley Cyrus

• Katy Perry
• Nikki Minaj

• Selena Gomez
HIP HOP AND RAP
• Hip hop music is a stylized, highly rhythmic type of music
that usually (but not always)includes portions of
rhytmically chanted words called “rap.”

• In rapping, the artist speaks along with an instrumental or

synthesized beat.

• Hip hop arose in the 1970s within the Afro-American and Latino
youth in the Bronx area of New York City. But in 1980s, it had
spread to many other countries.
HIP HOP AND RAP
• It has since evolved into a subculture that encompasses music
(rapping, DJing, scratching, and beatboxing); a nearly acrobatic style
of dancing, called break dancing; a distinct manner of dress; and
graffiti-style artwork.

• Among the early hip hop artists were LL Cool J and Run-D.M.C.
While more recent popular names in this genre have been Beastie
Boys, Eminem, and Kanye West.
ALTERNATIVE MUSIC
• Alternative music was an underground independent form of music
that arose in the 1980’s.
• It became widely popular in the 1990’s as a way to defy “mainstream”
rock music.
• Thus, it was known for its unconventional practices such as
distorted guitar sounds, oppressive lyrics, and defiant
attitudes.
• It was also characterized by high energy levels that bred new styles
such as new wave, punk rock, post-punk, indie rock, gothic rock, jangle
pop, noise pop, C86, Madchester, Industrial Rock, and Shoegazing.
Examples of alternative music are You Belong with Me, Shake It Off.