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Western music is a form of music composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada. Western music celebrates the lifestyle of the cowboy on the open range, along the Rocky Mountains , and among the prairies of Western North America.
The set won the 2005 R. R. Hawkins Award (Association of American Publishers) for Best Scholarly Work. [3]The first volume was particularly well received. It has been described as weaving "facts and impressions from histories, visual art and architecture" as an introduction to early music.
For these reasons polkas and western music were always popular in the region, and with the introduction of the radio, mainstream country music flourished. As the culture of the region is western and frontier in nature, the specific genre of country and western is more popular today in the Prairies than in any other part of the country.
Music has been used for entertainment, ceremonies, rituals, religious purposes and for practical and artistic communication. Non-Western music has also been used for propaganda purposes, as was the case with Chinese opera during the Cultural Revolution. There is a host of music classifications for non-Western music, many of which are caught up ...
Baroque music (UK: / b ə ˈ r ɒ k / or US: / b ə ˈ r oʊ k /) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. [1] The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition (the galant style).
Though the term "classical music" includes all Western art music from the medieval era to the early 2010s, the Classical era was the period of Western art music from the 1750s to the early 1820s [75] —the era of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
The dominance of hair metal in the 1980s ended with mainstream introduction to the grunge movement in 1991. Grunge, a mixture of heavy metal and alternative rock, as well as a fashion subculture, emerged from the late 1980s in and around Seattle. In September 1991, the album Nevermind by grunge band Nirvana released.
Ravi Shankar, a master of the instrument, was the first to make inroads into Western culture with the sitar.. The use of the sitar in Western popular music arose in the 1960s due to experimentation by various rock bands such as The Beatles, The Kinks, and The Rolling Stones, [1] While the sitar had earlier been used in jazz [1] and Indian film music, it was from the 1960s onwards that various ...