Classification data of European and American pop music and its representative works

35 kinds of European and American pop music-

0 1. What is a jump? Trip-hop is an English/European dance music. Its name comes from "trip+hip hop" = trip-hop-hop. Because it originated in Bristol, England, it was originally called "Bristol Hip-hop". Because hip-hop (in fact, a lot of music is based on hip-hop ... I don't know what hip-hop is, but most of them dance to hip-hop music), the rhythm is slowed down (sometimes very slow), and some psychedelic flavors are added, such as gloomy and full bass, slight but psychedelic synthetic sound effects, or some record samples. Sometimes even the noise of a record may be "intentionally" sampled. The so-called "trip" refers to the psychedelic and heavy drug "journey", so trip-hop is a kind of slow, psychedelic, jazz-like, hip-hop rhythm and chaotic broken beat music. Although it belongs to the category of dance music, its psychedelic and chaotic characteristics have made it far away from all the clear beat characteristics of general dance music. The representative figure of trip-hop abroad: the recognized iron triangle in trip-hop: Portihead, sharp and aggressive. Mandalay Moloko Lengqie.

02. What is world music? World music is a vocabulary from a western perspective, which refers to non-English, American and western folk/pop music. Usually refers to the traditional music in developing or backward areas, such as Africa and South Asia. Music in some areas, such as Latin America, can be popularized into its own type. Today's world music usually refers to the mixture of improved traditional regional music and western music. King Sunnyad of Africa, Don Byron of Eastern Europe, Zhu Zheqin of China, nusrat Fathari Kahn of Pakistan, etc. Are western music fans familiar with world music musicians?

03. What is the new era? The new era is a kind of quiet, comfortable and leisurely music. Pure music works account for a large proportion, while singing accounts for less. The new era can be purely acoustic (that is, played with traditional spontaneous acoustic instruments) or very electronic. The key point is to create a calm atmosphere of nature or a feeling of the vastness of the universe, to wash the listener's mind and make people calm. The new era is often related to music therapy. A lot of new age music says that it can cure diseases, and many of them are related to meditation, which has a lot to do with new age philosophy. New Age music is usually regarded as middle-class music, and Windham Hill is the most representative New Age record company. Representative musicians in the new era include Enya, george winston, wilhelm ackermann, Yan Ni and Chittaro.

04. What is dream pop Music? Dream-pop is a kind of "dreamy" pop music with a blurred atmosphere, which is mostly caused by synthesizers (electronic synthesizers) and is also an important part of electric junctions with echo effect. The singing part is often very' breath', that is, the lyrics are often poetic and dreamy. The representative bands are cocteau twins, lisa germano, st.etienne, this mortal coil, my bloody valentine, mazzy star and dead can dance.

05. What is classical pop music? Classical pop refers to pop music with the flavor of classical music, and songs accompanied by strings can be classified into this category, such as eleanorrigby by by the Beatles. Some works by the Australian band Crowded House can also be classified into this category. If we say classic pop, we mean classic pop music.

06. What is cappella? Cappella refers to the songs without instrumental accompaniment, but all the songs sung by pure vocals are cappella. But today, cappella usually refers to the kind of multi-voice singing, and even the instrumental accompaniment is also sung by vocals. The antonym of cappella is umental, that is, pure music. Any kind of song can be sung in the form of cappella. What Hong Kong people are most familiar with is cappella's song "So Love", and Hong Kong cappella band has Jisheng Yashi and so on.

07. What is Posanova? The new album Enigma conveys many natural and philosophical ideas. The theme of this concept is "Why". Beyond the underworld is a classic single of Enigma. Through Critto's voice, an irresistible hymn chorus and a powerful melody were paved. Bosanova is a kind of Brazilian music with jazz flavor. /kloc-antonio carlos jobim, a composer in the 1950s, combined the rhythm of Brazilian music with cool jazz on the west coast of the United States, featuring softness, comfort, relaxation, laziness and romance. 1, 4, 7, 1 1, 14 beats in every two bars are all remakes. The singer joao gilberto's pure and rich voice is an excellent partner of jobim music, which became very popular after being introduced to the United States in the mid-1950s. Other famous Bosanova musicians include Charlie Bird, Stan Gates and Astrud Gilberto. The most famous song is The Girl from Ipanema. Osanova was the most popular in the 1960 s, and fans continued in other years.

08. What is post-rock? Post-rock is an experimental progressive rock music that appeared in the mid-1990s. It has a hypnotic feeling, and its style is taken from the environment, free-form Jawad and electronic music. The tortoise represents the band. They regard their music as a constantly changing and fresh night work, not a song. Most post-rock bands are anti-mainstream music and anti-independent rock, but some are popular, such as stereolab. Examples of post-rock bands include dead end, ui, UFO attack, Alpaca, Mogwe, Transamerican Airlines, etc.

09. What is britpop? Although britpop has the word "pop", it is actually a kind of rock, which originated in Britain in the 1990s. Chinese can be translated as "British Rock", which is a response of the British music industry to the American junk rock tide, mainly in the form of bands. However, the styles of britpop are actually very extensive. For example, oasis is a guitar rock band, blur has many POPs, and pulp is close to glam rook and dance style, but they all belong to britpop. Britpop's representative in Britain: oasis fuzzy suede pulp radio head

10. What is dub? Dub can be said to be reggae (reggae, also called reggae, is a kind of South American black music with a very rhythmic sense and a special singing style). The application of dub in electronic music is to take away some songs, emphasize bass and drums, and add many echo effects. This technology often mixes songs during live performances. Albums like Attack, Protect are remixed into dubbing versions by the trip-hop music of Crazy Professor.

1 1. What is an electron? As early as the late 1970 s and early 1980 s, there were no house, techno ... electronic music was not very popular, only electronic music, such as electronics. Electronic sound can be said to be music made by a synthesizer (it looks a bit like a keyboard), which is usually quite soft. tr-808, a drum machine of Roland Company, used to play drums. The German Power Plant Orchestra can be regarded as a representative. Now the electric timbre is much brighter and more transparent than before. Later, some dj transformed into a kind of hip-hop music through electronic music, which was called old school. Now fatboy slim (Streamline Fat Boy) also combines some electronic sounds and the old school in music.

12. What is a jungle? The jungle is the predecessor of drums and bass. The jungle is much faster than drums, and the rhythm is more complicated and tough, sometimes with a little rap. Unlike drums and bass, which combine some elements such as jazz and soul music, it sounds softer. Even david bowie, the "rock chameleon", is now involved in the jungle.

13. What are drums and bass? For some people, the music of drum bass may be annoying, because drum bass pays great attention to playing tricks on the rhythm and the performance of bass, such as fast and complicated beats and the use of various electronic drums or sampling drums. Therefore, drum bass is also a kind of breakbeat, and 4hero is a famous drum bass orchestra.

14. What is big-beat? "Big beat" makes brit-hop faster, more rhythmic and more rock and roll. It can be said that it is a more mature style after the improvement of brit-hop. You can imagine what a heavy, broken and somewhat fast beat looks like. For example, Extraordinary Orchestra, Chemical Brothers Orchestra and Fat Slim are the big speakers.

15. What is brit-hop? Speed up the rhythm of black hip-hop and increase the drums. Coupled with a little electric guitar and bass, it has the taste of rock music, such as the style of chemistry brothers.

16. What is a break beat? Unlike House's boom-boom-boom, it is presented in a broken beat, just like the syncopated beat. For example, two beats plus a small broken drum, etc., breakbeat is just a general term. There are many kinds of music belonging to breakbeat, such as brit-hop, big-beat and black hip-hop.

What is a psychological trance? Also known as Goa trance, it originated from an island in India. Goa is the name of this small island, and its melody often has Indian flavor. This kind of trance is characterized by attaching great importance to the subtle changes between melody and notes, often overlapping melodies, and a high-pitched tb-303 sound, which has a sense of environment.

What is trance? Psychedelic dance music, evolved from techno, will make you feel "trance" after listening to it, but it still maintains the rhythm of the dance music and pays great attention to the performance of bass. Some of them will have a "hypnotic" effect after listening, and the beat is mainly 4/4 beats.

19. What is the environment? It doesn't sound like much ups and downs, but it is always changing. For example, long-term sound effects or gradual music arrangement often create a layered sense of space, so it is called "situational music", which often samples the sounds around life, such as human voices, car sounds, and even the melodies of other music ... and so on. This is a kind of "profound" electronic music created by Brian Eno in 1970s. Later, there were branches of ambient, such as ambient house and ambient techno. I believe you can literally understand that in fact, many kinds of music will have the shadow of ambient, and even some classical music has the taste of ambient.

20. What is techno? Technology is "high-tech dance music"! Using computers and synthesizers to make some special sound effects, this kind of music is often composed of many sound effects. Techno's beat is also 4/4 beat, but it is faster than house's, and it sounds repetitive, tough and mechanized, so some people call techno "industrial noise", but others still pay attention to melody. Techno originated in Detroit, USA, and there are three DJs: Derek May. Kevin Sanders Juan Atkins tried to combine electronic music with black music to create Detroit electronic music. Detroit techno is usually mild, not as strong as ordinary techno, which can be said to be the origin of modern techno.

2 1. What is electronic music? What is electronic music? With the evolution of the times, musicians have more ways to create music. The so-called electronic music is to make music with electronic sounds generated by electronic synthesizers, music software and computers. Electronic music has a wide range and can often be heard around life. It is used in movie soundtrack, advertising soundtrack and even some popular songs in Mandarin, but electronic dance music is the most important. Many people think that electronic music is a kind of heartless music. In fact, electronic music can also be integrated into rock. There are also various types of electronic music, including house, electronics, environment, trance, mental trance, break dance, English dance, big beat, trip-hop, drum' n'bass, jazz, electronics, dubbing, calmness and minimalism.

22. What are folk songs? Folk songs (folk songs) originally refer to the traditional songs of each nation. The ancestors of each nation have their own songs from primitive/ancient times. Most of these songs don't know who the author is, but they are passed down from generation to generation. The folk songs we are talking about today mostly refer to the folk songs in the pop music era, which are accompanied by acoustic guitars and sung in a natural and frank way, singing the simple life feelings of everyone. Woody guthrie, an American folk singer, recorded the earliest folk songs in 1950s, so she is recognized as the founder of modern folk songs. Later, pete seeger and The Weaver continued to promote this kind of music. In the Vietnam War in 1960s, anti-war folk singers such as Bob Dylan, joan baez, Peter, Paul and Mary became the voices of the times. After the development of folk songs to pop, rock and urbanization, Bob Dylan invented folk rock, Simon &; Garfinkel has developed a middle-class urban folk pop music, which has been popular for some time. In 1980s, Susanna Vega, tracy chapman, etc. +Out of a more modern urban/contemporary folk song route. Folk songs (folk songs) have also developed different faces in music circles such as Britain and Hong Kong. The recent development of folk songs (ballads) is a combination with the new era (such as Enya) and trip hop (such as beth orton).

23. What is chamber music? Chamber music refers to an elegant, noble and exquisite pop music with a certain sense of classical music. The word "chamber music" comes from classical music, which is called "chamber music" in Chinese. It is an elegant and atmospheric ensemble playing style. The rise of chamber music in the 1990s was a response to lo-fi and grunge at that time, emphasizing beautiful melody, exquisite soundtrack and clean recording. Strings and wind music are often used to create the musical feeling of the Baroque era. Foreign representative bands include Divine Comedy, Rialto, Eric Matthews and Bale &; Sebastian et al.

24. what is synth pop? Synth pop's "Synth", that is, synthesizer, is "popular music concocted by synthesizers" as its name implies. Of course, computers, drums and other electronic musical instruments will be used in addition to synthesizers. Synth pop became popular in the early 1980s, but it became silent in the mid-1980s, when there was a boom in Hong Kong. Synth pop is characterized by a strong sense of science and technology, and sometimes it is quite cold. Most songs are "three-minute pop", and many times synth pop musicians will dress up in fashion. Synth pop stands for combination: Depesh model, human alliance, Duran Duran, omd, Gary Numan.

25. What is an orchestra? The orchestra is an orchestra, divided into four groups: 1 string, including violin and cello, 2 brass, 3 woodwind and 4 percussion. Each instrument in the string group is played by many people (except the harp), and the four groups of players are coordinated and conducted by one person, who is the conductor of the orchestra. /kloc-orchestras appeared in the 0/7th century, and18th century clearly established the mode because of the works of Haydn and Mozart. /kloc-Some new musical instruments were added in the 0/9th century, and the number of orchestras also increased. Orchestral music is authentic western classical/orthodox music. Western pop/rock music often uses some or all members of the orchestra to assist in the performance.

26. What is gangsta rap? Gangsta rap is a kind of rap, which is mostly related to urban crime, full of violence and lust, and it is a music direction that reflects reality. Gangsta rap rose in the United States in the late 1980s. The strong and sharp genre of music rap was very popular in the United States, and the record sales were very good. Many gang rap musicians themselves really "participated" in various crimes in reality, and some even went to jail or even were killed, which can be said to be a truly realistic and shocking music. Gangster rap table combination: Estee, Ice, Dr. Dre, Snoopy Dog Dog, 2 pac, geto Boy.

27. What is a house? House is a dance music developed from disco in 1980s. This is music played by dj in Chicago. They mixed a record of German electronic band kraftwerk with the regular rhythm of drum machine and black blues songs, and house came into being ~ generally translated as "Shi Hao" dance music, which is the most basic form of electronic dance music, with a rhythm of 4/4 beat, drums and simple melody. There are often high-pitched female voices singing. After disco became popular, some DJs changed it and deliberately made disco less commercial. Bass and drums become deeper and often become pure music works. Even if there are singing parts, most of them are short sentences sung by female dancers, and there are often no clear lyrics. Gradually, some people added Latin (Latin), reggae (reggae originated in the West Indies), rap or jazz. By the end of 1980s, House had rushed out of the underground world and became the darling of the pop charts in Chicago, new york and London.

28. What is r & ampb? The full name of r & ampb is rhythm &；; Blues, commonly known as "rhythm and blues". R &； in a broad sense; B can be regarded as "black pop music", which originated from black blues music and is the basis of western pop music and rock music. Billboard magazine once defined R& B as all black music, except jazz and blues, which can be classified as R&; B, visible R &；; How wide is the scope of B. Hip hop and r&, which are very popular in black music circles in recent years, both originated from r&'s saving a lot of R&D expenses in research and development. Component B.

29. The abbreviation of disco, originally meaning record dance, originally refers to the music that black people dance in nightclubs according to recordings. In the 1970s, it became a general term for virtually any new dance music. Compared with rock and roll, it is characterized by strong, indifferent, metronome-like 4/4 beat and simple lyrics and tunes. 1977, because the Australian pop music group "bee gees" recorded the film "Weekend Fever", disco fever was set off in the United States. Disco is often synthesized and made into records in the recording studio, but due to its monotonous rhythm and similar style, it was gradually replaced by other pop dance music with less obvious rhythm and slower speed in the early 1980s.

30. Punk, a kind of rock music developed in the mid-1970s, or "punk rock", swept the United States in the early 1980s. Punk's resistance to rock music has weakened, which is manifested in its deliberate opposition to more civilized rock music. It inherited the rebellious spirit at the beginning of the birth of rock music and despised all traditions, religions and educational institutions. , but expressed in a more decadent way, with extreme anarchism. Their lyrics are obscene and rude; Screaming, stamping and fighting on the stage; Music is close to hard rock, with a loud voice and strong timbre. Representative bands include "Sex Pistol" and "Conflict". At the end of 1970s, a new kind of punk was separated, which was more acceptable and artistic, and was called "new wave".

3 1. Soul is also called "soul song". 1969, the bulletin board replaced the original title "Rhythm and Blues" with "Sol". It is a kind of black pop music mixed with blues, rock music and black gospel songs, and rarely plays musical instruments when singing. Saul's famous singers include james brown, ray charles, ons redding, SteveWonder and prince.

Reggae originated in Jamaica and was introduced to the United States in the mid-1970s. It combines the rhythms of Africa and Latin America, and has a strong and driving rock sound similar to the popular echo singing in Africa.

33.rap is black slang, which is equivalent to "speaking" and originated from the poor black community in new york. It is characterized by telling a series of rhyming poems quickly under the background of mechanical rhythm. One of the sources of this form is a fast rhyming jargon used by radio presenters to introduce records in the past. Lepp's lyrics are humorous and often satirical, especially popular among blacks in the 1980s. The most representative band is Public Enemy. Lepp is sometimes called "hip hop". In fact, Heep-Hope has a broader meaning, which refers to various elements of street culture in new york at that time. In addition to Lepp, there are: (Lepp is commonly used) moving the record on the turntable of the phonograph back and forth by hand, making a rhythmic scratching sound; The dj can't hear the interruption when switching records and splicing music clips. Break dancing and so on.

34. Pop music is a kind of modern pop music with strong rhythm. It is generally believed that pop music can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. "Pop" here refers to the narrow sense of pop music, such as famous singers diana ross, Lionel Richie, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince and Janet Jackson in 1970s and 1980s.

35. Art rock became popular after 1970s, mainly in Europe, led by British people, such as Moody Bruce, but it also had influence in the United States. Art rock combines rock music with classical music, and uses electronic equipment to play the works of composers such as Liszt and Debussy, also known as "progressive rock".