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Polynesian music is a fun and vibrant musical style originating from the Polynesian islands of the South Pacific. The sounds of this ancient culture have begun to find their way into modern music, reflected by the tiki craze of the 1950s and 1960s and even in today’s pop culture. Even the Beastie Boys have sampled traditional Polynesian music in their songs. In Polynesia, western-style music, instruments, and rhythms have made an impact on the traditional songs found here.

Polynesia actually comprises of thousands of islands spread across the South Pacific Ocean. Each island is home to its own cultures, traditions, and music. In general, the most important part of Polynesian music is the lyrics. These lyrics often tell a story of daily life or the mythology of the islands. The instruments behind these lyrics are simple, but the sounds emanating from them beautiful. Among the variety of instruments found in traditional Polynesian music are slit drums made from logs, as well as nose flutes, a tiny style of flute. These instruments are often accompanied by hand clapping to keep the rhythm and flow going.

Among the most well-known of traditional Polynesian music styles is the Hawaiian Hula. This form of music has been passed down through generations as a central aspect of Hawaiian culture. This traditional folk music tends to be religious and incorporates chants from the audience. Along with the music are the traditional hula dancers, whose swaying hips and hand movements tell a story set to song. Today, hula music still functions to communicate mythology, religion, and history. Although simple in melody and rhythm, hula music contains complex and poetic verses.

Considered Hawaiian folk music, today’s hula musicians often incorporate modern hip-hop and pop sounds in combination with traditional lyrics. There are also many artists preserving Hawaii’s rich cultural heritage through song. The Hawaiian hula is known for the steel guitar, and is the music you’re most likely to hear if you attend a luau during your Hawaiian vacation.

These traditional musical sounds remained much the same for centuries, as most of the Polynesian islands were not visited by outsiders until at least the middle of the eighteenth century. Following European contact, they began to incorporate American, European, Asian, and South American beats. After the arrival of Christian missionaries, which began in the 1790s and continued for more than a century, hymns and other Christian musical styles were sung, and native musical styles were often driven underground, although they also merged with Christian styles to create new musical genres.

If you want the atmosphere of Polynesian music for your next party, consider Tiki music, which will instantly transport you to the relaxing feel of a tropical island. This music grew out of the tiki craze that began in the late 1940s, which also popularized other areas of Polynesian culture. When listening to this spinoff of Polynesian music, which has become known as “exotica lounge music,” you can picture yourself sitting on a beach, the waves gently lapping at the shore. This music combines traditional Polynesian sounds with music from other areas of the world, such as Latin rhythms and tribal beats, as well as nature sounds like bird calls, resulting in an unusual musical blend.

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Article by Claire Brown

Pop music is not usually written, performed and recorded as a symphony, suite, or concerto. Pop music, on the other hand, has primarily come into usage to describe music that evolved out of the rock ‘n roll revolution of the mid-1950′s and continues in a definable path to today. Pop music has been very controversial at least since the 1950s, but even Plato complained about the influence of music on youth.

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Music is one of the most basic experiences for human beings. Music doesn’t appear to have massive negative effects, the authors say. Music styles define the crowds and cliques they run in. Music personalities provide models for how they act and dress. Music also appears to alter study habits and damage eardrums. Music videos are a “powerful new force” in adolescent culture but they don’t seem to hold adolescents’ interest nearly as long as the music itself. Musicians are offended by this because we think music should engage you.

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Pop in some way made a partial revenge in the late 50s with the Brill Building in NYC now the centre. Pop pundits may also find some musical interest in the recordings of Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly. Pop music as core of youth culture. Britney Spears is probably the most photographed pop star of the last 10 years, so what better way to take a tour back through the standout moments in her career than through a picture gallery. From her days as the biggest teenage pop star the world has yet known to the beginning of a comeback this fall, enjoy the Britney Spears Photo-Biography. This was a week when one of the most loved and hated pop stars finally returned with new music, but she was kept out of the top spot on this week’s chart by an artist who has been burning up the pop singles chart for the past 2 years. 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 charts have continually changed and evolved.

At any particular point in time it may be easiest to identify pop music as that which is successful on the pop music charts. However, there are some consistent patterns in what is identified as pop music. It is tempting to confuse pop music with popular music. Since the mid-1950′s pop music has usually been identified as the music and the musical styles that are accessible to the widest audience. One of the most consistent elements of pop music since the 1950′s is the pop song. The basic form for pop music is the song and usually a song consisting of verse and repeated chorus.

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Claire Brown is a successful Webmaster and publisher of www.WeKnowMusic.net. She provides more information about music and what has influenced them over time that you can research in your pajamas on her website.

Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City

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Most young adults can remember their parents criticizing their taste in music during their childhood. If you grew up during the hip-hop explosion of the 1980s and 1990s, rappers and some sexually provocative R&B singers were blamed for the “lack of morals” amongst the younger generation.

The influence of music was blamed for everything from teenage pregnancy, inner-city violence and the rise of promiscuity amongst youth, which led to an explosion of sexually transmitted diseases.

The influence of music continues to be blamed for many of society’s ills 20 to 30 years later. But has music become that negative over recent generations, or are the complaints from older generations over-exaggerated and simply a nostalgic recollection of their youth?

Over the last couple of years I have become a huge fan of TV One’s documentary series “Unsung,” which takes a look at groups who achieved critical acclaim but failed to maintain a lasting influence on the pop charts.

This season, the program took a look at the Bar-Kays, among other groups, who overcame tragedy before becoming triumphant funk stars during in the 1970s and 1980s. I vividly remember jamming to “Freakshow on the Dance Floor” as a youngster in elementary school, oblivious to the actual message in the song. The same promiscuity that can be heard in that 1984 classic can be heard in songs by newer artists such as Drake or Nicki Minaj.

While these newer artists are definitely more profane than their predecessors, if you were talk to someone of an older generation, they would almost always completely ignore the blatant promiscuity in songs such as Anita Ward’s “Ring My Bell,” Rick James’ “Super Freak,” or Prince’s “Head.”

Around the same time that “Freak Show on the Dance Floor” was tearing up the R&B charts, I can remember my mother forbidding my sister and me from listening to “Darling Nikki” by Prince because he mentioned such things as masturbation. At 5-years-old, and not even knowing what masturbation was, my mother made a conscious effort that the influence of music was not going to trump her influence over her children.

Nevertheless, those negative images were present 30 years ago, just as they are present in 2010. The influence of music did not mysteriously become negative after generations of wholesomeness; it has always had its negative elements. The thing that is different between today’s generation and generations of yesteryear is that our parents were determined to become the main influence in our lives.

When I hear older men and women talk down to younger generations because of their taste in music or fashion, I want to inform them that their taste at a young age was not much better, and everything they were a part of was not as wholesome as they want their children to believe.

The influence of music and other forms of media will always be prevalent, just as the influence of one’s peers and parents will always be relevant. It is very important that everyone in the public eye realize that young eyes are watching at all times, and we are constantly influencing the development of young minds.

However, it is also wise to remember that we were all young once, and the things we were exposed to at a young age was not always that innocent and most of us turned out just fine, despite the negative influences.

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Kings of Leon - Live at the O2 Arena [DVD] [2009]

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AC/DC: Let There Be Rock! [DVD]

A legendary concert that’s long been tricky to track down, AC/DC: Let There Be Rock! has finally got a long overdue disc release. And fortunately, it’s been worth the wait. The concert was originally released in 1980, but has remained steadfastly hard to get hold of, leaving fans treasuring their old VHS copies. But no more. Let There Be Rock’s arrival on DVD brings with it 13 songs, live and loud, including some of the band’s finest work. The songs themselves are further interspersed w

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Music video by AC/DC performing Thunderstruck. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 30054567 (C) 1991 J. Albert & Son (Pty.) Ltd.
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New Directions has fallen on hard times and teacher Will Schuester has taken the task of restoring the glee club to its former glory. With an unlikely group of students including a couple of football players, a few cheerleaders, a male soprano, a potential diva, and the girl who believes she will be a star, the glee club works to perform at first the sectional then the regional competition. The show has included plot lines ranging from teen pregnancy, to angst over sexual orientation, to the clique driven world of high school, to the separation and divorce of Mr. Schuester.

While the story arcs and characters are well written and well acted, the real star of the show is the music. Each week, the show includes jaw dropping musical numbers ranging from Lady Gaga to KISS; from Les Miserables to Journey; from Madonna to “The Lady is a Tramp.” The cast moves from song to song and from style to style with ease and continuously provides excellent music with a dramatic twist. Whether the song is classic rock, Broadway musical, funk, or modern rock, the cast shows their musical chops by performing each song in an exciting and well done manner. Read the rest of this entry »

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The classics of music are the enduring expressions of adventurers that withstood the test of time. Classical composers did not compose classical music. At the time of their composing, they were standing on the bow of the ship of music as it headed for the deep, dark, mysterious waters of the unknown possibilities of human experience. For them, their creative act was an experiment in both expression and technique.

Their creative acts were a tempest of exaggerations and struggles as they attempted to forge a new path to aesthetic experience. Little understood in their own time, the resolution of the tensions between the old and new creations not yet acknowledged, or accepted, it would take time for the listening public to understand and appreciate the new world these classical music composers discovered on behalf of man. It would be only later that their works, their discovers and claims, would gain full recognition, be appreciated, and finally, after a time, set as a launching point from which new adventures into music experience would be launched. Read the rest of this entry »

Article by Jessel James

The United States occupied the Islands in 1898 until 1935, and introduced American blues folk music, R&B, and rock and roll became popular. In the late 1950s, native performers adapted Tagalog lyrics for North American rock n’roll music, resulting in the seminal origins of Philippine rock. The most notable achievement in Philippine rock of the 1960s was the hit song “Killer Joe,” which propelled the group “Rocky Fellers” which reached number 16 on the American radio charts.

Up until the 1970s, popular rock music began writing and producing in English. In the early 1970s, rock music began to be written using local languages, with bands like the Juan Dela Cruz Band being among the first popular bands to do so. Mixing Tagalog, and English lyrics were also popularly used within the same song, in songs like “Ang Miss Universe Ng Buhay Ko,” by the band Hotdogs which helped innovate the Manila sound. The mixing of the two languages (known as “Taglish”), while common in casual speech in the Philippines, was seen as a bold move, but the success of Taglish in popular songs, including Sharon Cuneta’s first hit, “Mr DJ,” broke the barrier forevermore.

Philippine rock musicians added folk music, and other influences, helping to lead to the 1978 breakthrough success of Freddie Aguilar. Aguilar’s Anak, his debut recording, is the most commercially successful philippine recording, and was popular throughout Asia, and Europe, and has been translated into numerous language by singers worldwide. Asin also broke into the music scene at the same period, and were popular.

Folk-rock became the Philippine protest music of the 1980s, and Aguilar’s “Bayan Ko” became especially popular as an anthem during the 1986 revolution. At the same time, a counterculture rejected the rise of politically focused lyrics. In Manila, a Punk rock scene developed, led by bands like Betrayed, The Jerks, and Urban Bandits. The influence of New Wave was also felt during these years, spearheaded by The Dawn.

1990s saw the emergence of a superstar pop-rock group, the Eraserheads, considered by many Philippine nationals as the number one group in the Philippine recording scene. In the wake of their success was the emergence of a string of influential Filipino rock bands such as Yano, Siakol, Parokya ni Edgar, and Rivermaya, each of which mixes the influence of a variety of rock subgenres into their style.

Philippine rock has also developed to include some hard rock, heavy metal, and Alternative rock such as Wolfgang, Razorback, Greyhounds, Queso, Grin department and the progressive band Paradigm.

The Neo-Traditional genre in Philippine music is also gaining popularity, with artists such as Joey Ayala, Grace Nono, Bayang Barrios, Cocojam, and Pinikpikan, reaping relative commercial success while utilizing the traditional musical sounds of many indigenous tribes in the country.

Today, the Philippine Islands exhibits western style music, producing notable bands such as PUPIL, Sponge Cola, Callalily, Chicosci, Bamboo, Silent Sanctuary, Rocksteddy, Kjwan, Kamikazee, Cueshe, Itchyworms, Vinyard, Valley of Chrome, Clap Your Hands, Imago, Hale, The Ambassadors, Moonstar 88, Faspitch, Check,and Urbandub, and the emergence of its first virtual band, Mistula.

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Article by Claire Brown

Pop music may include elements of rock, hip hop, reggae, dance, R&B, jazz, electronic, and sometimes folk music and various other styles. Pop music performers typically make use of state-of-the-art technology and recording studios to achieve the sound they want, and record producers may have a heavy influence. Pop music generally uses a simple, memorable melody and emphasizes the rhythm, often with syncopation, and stripped down to a basic riff or loop which repeats throughout much of the song. Pop music is often criticized for being overly simple and repetitive. Read the rest of this entry »

Here we have some videos from the Korean charts. I am quite impressed with Beast, they sound good, look good and the energy is great. A very good performance that kept me captivated.

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* 1st Week of May 2010 K-chart (2010.5.7 Music Bank Live aired) 1. Without U – 2PM 2. Love Song – Rain 3. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – Lee Hyo-ri 4. It has to be You – Ye Seung 5. Like a Man – Bobby Kim 6. Run Devil Run – Girls Generation 7. Like a Fool – 2AM 8. Magic – Secret 9. What an Awful World – Seo Young-eun 10. Scattered – Monday Kids 11. Bang! – After School 12. Lupin – Kara 13. I Did Wrong – 2AM 14. Confession – Hot Potato 15. Going Home – Kim Yoon-a 16. There is No Love – Gummy 17. 10 Reasons to Love You – Lee Seok-hoon 18. My Heart is Touched – Seeya 19. Painful Days in Love – Lim Jae-beom 20. It doesn’t make Sense -Youn ha
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