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  2. Jazz Age - Wikipedia

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    There were two categories of live music on the radio: concert music and big band dance music. The concert music was known as "potter palm" and was concert music by amateurs, usually volunteers. [53] Big band dance music is played by professionals and was featured in remote [54] broadcasts from nightclubs, dance halls, and ballrooms. [55]

  3. Transposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, transposition refers to the process or operation of moving a collection of notes (pitches or pitch classes) up or down in pitch by a constant interval. The shifting of a melody , a harmonic progression or an entire musical piece to another key, while maintaining the same tone structure, i.e. the same succession of whole tones and ...

  4. Sociomusicology - Wikipedia

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    Even if the music artist is a solo performer, the production of the music itself, took a level of social effort. From the instruments that were created to make the music, to the final production of generating a way to listen to the music, also known as the product. [2] Furthermore, one can argue that even the distribution of the music is a ...

  5. Historically informed performance - Wikipedia

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    Performance on period instruments is a key aspect of HIP, such as this baroque orchestra (Photo: Josetxu Obregón and the Spanish ensemble La Ritirata, 2013).. Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of classical music which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of the musical ...

  6. Music history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Music history of the United States includes many styles of folk, popular and classical music. Some of the best-known genres of American music are rhythm and blues, jazz, rock and roll, rock, soul, hip hop, pop, and country. American music began with the Native Americans, the first people to populate North America.

  7. Hip-hop culture - Wikipedia

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    Rapper Ice-T. With the commercial success of gangsta rap in the early 1990s, the emphasis in lyrics shifted to drugs, violence, and misogyny.Early proponents of gangsta rap included groups and artists such as Ice-T, who recorded what some consider to be the first gangsta rap single, "6 in the Mornin'", [68] and N.W.A whose second album Niggaz4Life became the first gangsta rap album to enter ...

  8. How Beyoncé Changed the Music Industry - AOL

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    Credit - Photo-Illustration by TIME; Getty Images (5) O n Friday, Beyoncé will release Cowboy Carter, the much anticipated album that signals the beginning of the second part of a three-act ...

  9. Music industry - Wikipedia

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    Musicians working in a recording studio An audience watching a concert. The music industry refers to the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent and supply music creators.