The music of the 80’s

The 80’s music hits produced by artists like Madonna, Michael Jackson, Annie Lenox, and Wham are forever favourites of all generations. The 80’s was an era of the new wave movement in the UK that originated from punk, rock, and pop music. It integrated different genre including disco, electronic and experimental music. During the 80s, bands experimented with electronic sounds incorporating them into their compositions using electronic elements like digital synthesizers and electronic keyboards. The use of electronic elements gave rise to a wide variety of pop music, and heavy metal music with bands like UB40 and the Police gaining worldwide success. It was during this movement that new romantic music emerged in London nightclubs. Influenced by genres such as disco, rock, R&B and early electronic pop music, this new romantic music wa suitable for dancing.

The start of MTV during the 80’s completely changed the music industry. The launch of the channel and cable video provided a platform for many British bands that were more successful than American artists at that time since British artists mastered the art of using music video thus outselling their American counterparts. Many journalists labelled this era as the “Second British Invasion” due to the hit singles produced by British artists. In 1983 about 30pc of record sales and in April 1984 40 of the top 100 singles were from British artists. While in May 1985 British artists had 8 singles in the top 10.  Read more...

Music has several forms and genres and each of these forms represents some different moods. Like if there will be distinct difference between Pop music and Jazz music, Jazz and Rock music and so on. Msols music is a form that is quite popular in America and rest of the world.

This form of music is greatly influenced by Black community of America and Africa. It speaks about their miseries and depression. There are reflections of several spiritual thoughts in this form also. Moreover, it is one of the oldest forms of music from which many other new and contemporary forms are influenced. The blues style of music went through changes with time. At the initial stage they were simply solo voice of the singer with the call-the-response method. But with change of tastes and trends this music form also coped up with new generation demands and at later stage a harmonic base accompanied with call-the-response system and with that this type of music took a new look, Generally guitar is the musical instrument with these types of songs.

There came changes on the ways of singing also. As in initial days this songs were sung with repetition of the same line for several times. Generally one line used to come four times in a song. But with change of times now one line is uttered once. One more thing that differentiates this form of music from others is its tunes. Here lyrics are generally sung devoid of any melody. Mostly you can see spoken lines in a rhythmic way.  Read more...

Hearing music is a wonderful thing but learning music is a Godly thing. So dont we go and learn music and feel that pleasure. So we should take a part to learn music as hobby. Music changes our mind, makes us to feel relax, whenever you feel sad, just put your favorite music in your player and hear it. It changes your mood immediately. That the magic in music. In past commonly we cannot find any music classes, it should be available at some particular place, and our people won’t go there. Nowadays we can see many people who learned music professionally; they are having high proficiency over that field. We are some particular department in schools and colleges. And we are individually having learning centers with our near places.

With my music classes in Mesa and Boston, I did some research and began to notice a group of common trends among guitarists of experts. You see, anyone can pick up the guitar and trying to play, but, of course, those who wear these certain “experts” traits will be passed to those who might have been playing for years. Learning to play a musical instrument or to develop their own ability to sing can take months of practice. According to research, is very advantageous for a child to begin developing their musical skills at a younger age.

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Estimating numbers as to how much attendance at MIDEM has decreased over the prior year has become something of a ritual. In this respect, MIDEM has become something of a barometer for the recorded music industry and the news is not good. Official attendance numbers released by conference organizer ReedMIDEM were 6,800, down 5%. For anyone who hadn’t been to MIDEM for a few years, they would barely be able to recognize it for all the sections of the Palais now off-limits (including our old Press Club, much to my chagrin).

Having said that, there are bright spots. MIDEM welcomed a record number of music managers (150) as well as significant increases in attending publishers (+25%) and digital/tech companies (+29%) – trends that certainly reflect some of the growth sectors in the industry. Also, 33% of 2011 attendees were newbies, ie., first timers, indicating that there are still new players, new ideas, and people who are still willing to take their chances with music . Considering our particular economic circumstances, one might wonder why.

Perhaps the biggest casualty was classical music. A few years ago, half the Riviera section of the Palais would be occupied by European music companies in the genre and I’d look forward to my chance encounter with someone from that world for a casual update on new developments. Those days are firmly over… which made an article in MIDEM NEWS #2 entitled, “Can Classical Music Lead Industry Back To Black?” all the more ironic. If “the classical music industry in the recovery room” means their disappearance from MIDEM, they’d better hope that the recording music business remains “in the operating theater” for at least a few more years.  Read more...