Pop music: “is a genre of popular music distinguished from classical or Art music and from folk music. The term indicates specific stylistic traits such as an emotional singing style, lyrics about love or sex, danceable beat, clear melodies, simple harmonies and repetitive structure so that people can catch on and join in.” (Wikipedia, 2006).
Some notable Pop music artists through periods:
1950s: Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra.
1960s: the Beatles, the Rolling Stones.
1970s: Elton John, Cher and the Carpenters.
1980s: Michael Jackson, Madona
1990s: Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.
200s: Pussycat Dolls, Hilary Duff.
Funk is an African American music style which was started by artists such as James Brown, the Meters and the Family Stone. This genre became a distinct genre since 1970s. According to Wikipedia, “Funk music is characterized by intensely syncopated, danceable rhythms with the emphasis falling heavily on the first beat of every measure; prominent bass lines; a distinctive, razor-sharp type of rhythm guitar; chanted or hollered vocals in the style of soul music; powerful, rhythm oriented horn sections; a strong emphasis on percussion, often including hand drums and other instruments as well as a drum kit; and African and jazz influences”. It was also believed that funk has influences on disco and hip hop genres which were developed later.
An artist which can represent to this genre is James Brown.
Disco is a music genre which is affected by Funk. At the first time, most of disco songs were created for nightclubs only (in the 1970s); but after that, they began to approach more common audiences such as radio listeners. The following list is some disco hits in the 1970s (Wikipedia):
Nelson James – “I Have An Afro” (1972)
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes – “The Love I Lost” (1973) and “Bad Luck” (1975)
Love Unlimited Orchestra - "Love's Theme" (1973)
The Jackson 5- "Dancing Machine" (1973)
Barry White - "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Baby" (1973), "Can't Get Enough of Your Love,
Babe" (1974), "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" (1974)
Shirley & Company - "Shame, Shame, Shame" (1974)
The Hues Corporation - "Rock the Boat" (1974)
The Commodores - "Machine Gun" (1974)
Frankie Valli - "Swearin' To God (1975)
Dalida- "J'Attendrai" (the first French disco song and first hit in Europe) (1975)
LaBelle - "Lady Marmalade" (1974)
The Four Seasons - "Who Loves You" and "December '63 (Oh What A Night)" (1975)
Silver Convention - "Fly Robin Fly" (1975)
The Bee Gees - "Jive Talkin' " (1975)
Heavy Metal which began popular in the 1970s-1980s is a sub-genre of Rock. “It is characterized by guitar-and-drum dominated sound, strong rhythms and classical, bluesy or symphonic styles” (Wikipedia). Although the main theme of heavy metal songs is often about darkness and evil, they also has been divided in to sub-genres including thrash metal, death metal, black metal, power metal and doom metal (most of them was started in the 1980s).
Thrash Metal: characterized by faster, louder and more aggressive than the original one with notable artists including Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer (the 4 bands are also called the “Big Four Of Thrash” (Wikipedia).
Death Metal: is developed from thrash metal with fast drummers, high-pitch screaming and harsh metal vocal. Notable bands of this sub-genre are Nile and Suffocation.
Black Metal: was originated from Europe which has the theme mostly about Satan. Most black metal bands such as Mercyful Fate, Bathony and Celtic Frost often used shrieked vocals, dark atmosphere and highly distorted guitar.
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