Registers in Popular Music Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music,which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local audiences. Popular music is music that is most commonly preferred by a certain group of people. Age bracket and location are some of the factors that determine what type of music is popular among certain people. Some people could prefer jazz, pop, rock or soul, just to name a few. The definition of pop music is purposefully flexible as the music that is identified as pop is constantly changing. At any particular point in time it may be easiest to identify pop music as that which is successful on the pop music charts. For the past 50 years the most successful musical styles on the pop. Traditionally, music and language have been treated as different psychological faculties. This duality is reflected in older theories about the lateralization of speech and music in that speech functions were thought to be localized in the left and music functions in the right-hemisphere of the brain. Music and language are related in so many ways that it is necessary to categorize some of those relationships. First, there is the seemingly never-ending debate of whether music is itself a language. The belief that music possesses, in some measure, characteristics of language leads people to attempt to apply linguistic theories to the understanding of music. These include semiotic analyses, information theory, theories of generative grammar, and other diverse beliefs or specially invented theories of what is being expressed and how. This category could thus be called "music as language". A second category is "talking about music". Regardless of whether music actually is a language, our experience of music is evidently so subjective as to cause people not to be satisfied that their perception of it is shared by others. This has led to the practice of attempting to "translate" music into words or to "describe" musical phenomena in words, or to "explain" the causes of musical phenomena. A third category is composed of a large number of "specialized music languages". These are invented descriptive or explanatory (mostly written) languages, specially designed for the discussion of music, as distinguished from everyday spoken language. The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order of things, including particularly the coordination between man and time. To be put into practice, its indispensable and single requirement is construction....It is precisely this construction, this achieved order, which produces in us a unique emotion having nothing in common with our ordinary sensations and our responses to the impressions of daily life.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 08:36:28 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015