History of Music in the USA The

History of Music in the US

The 20 th – the 40 th years: jazz time The second quarter of the 20 th century – the heyday of jazz culture. The United States became the cradle of this musical genre, and the new Orleans jazz is considered to be the gold classic. The main feature of jazz was always considered an improvisation performance. But in the 20 years it happened important event for jazz culture — was born swing. Such great performers as Benny Carter, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, have always said that the allocate of the jazz swing is pointless. World War II came to an end, also it came to an end and the era of jazz.

50 th years: musical boom With the end of World War II the US music world is literally explode variety of genres, including, first and foremost, it is necessary to allocate a rock ‘n’ roll. Among his ancestors called the blues, country, folk, swing and other directions. Іn General, rock-n-roll is a unique cultural phenomenon. Speaking of rock ‘n’ roll 50 th years, we automatically talk about at least two icons of this culture: Chuck Berry and The King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley. These two musicians — the real icon of the music.

The 60 th – the 70 th years: time of rock and rhythm and blues The 60 th years have passed under a banner just of R&B and a soul. These genres were presented to the world of really brilliant performers: Chabb Cheker, Sam Cook, Bill Blek, Teddie Pendergrass, Al Green, Bee of Bee King and others. Another really important genre of music of those years was disco.

80 th years: pop music time The 80 th became an era, by and large, of only two people: pop king Michael Jackson and pop queen Madonna. The 80 th – is unconditional hard rock time. It is difficult to find people who didn’t hear about such groups as «Bon Jovi», «Aerosmith», «ZZ Top», «Guns N’ Roses», «Metallica». It is necessary to mention two more genres, two of which were new to the American public – hip-hop and electronic music.

90 th years: variety time Нip-hop finally becoming massive and extremely popular here and the ongoing era heyday of rock, especially punk here and crazy successful pop groups here and popularization of electronic music. Pop Music 90’s — is generally a separate cultural phenomenon. The main trend were a boy band.

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