Posts Tagged ‘Popular’

First Ever Touring Youth Rock & Roll Music Camp Now Offering Two Popular Rock & Electronic Summer Programs for 2008

January 22nd, 2011

Parents of youth, age 12-18, looking for a creative environment for their budding young musicians, will now have more opportunity to grab a spot in The Collective Sound (TCS) Music Academy’s signature touring Summer Rock & Roll Music Camp with, not one, but two Summer Sessions for 2008. An expected 100 youth will gather from around the globe at the CSU Chico campus for three-week sessions running from July 6th-25th and July 20th-August 8th, to write, record, and perform their own collaborations, create music videos, epks, and band photos, and open for headliners along the three-stop Element Youth Movement Coop Tour – a collaborative art, music, and educational event with the Boys and Girls Club of America and Element Skateboards. The co-ed music camps accept all levels of musicians with a focus on guitar, bass, drums, voice, keyboard/piano and electronic music. Visit www.thecollectivesound.com for registration and scholarship information. Registration ends July 1, 2008.


The Collective Sound Summer Music Academy

The Collective Sound Music Academy, a non-profit, has been filling a gap in youth music education for over a decade, with programming that focuses on collaboration and creativity in current music genre. Working with music industry leaders such as Capitol Records, Volcom Entertainment, Sabian, the D’Addario Foundation, Gallien-Krueger, Gretsch Drums, Gibraltar, Dunlop, Roland, Digidesign, Yamaha, and Genz-Benz as well as music teachers, students will not only experience the creative process and hone their instrumental and technical skills, but will get a good look at the music industry.

How Big Band Jazz Music Became Popular

November 28th, 2010
Jazz Music

Big Band Jazz Music became popular around 1930s, also called as swing era, when it was played in the music concerts held at hot spots, such as New York and Chicago. Radio stations throughout the world begun to play this music thereby becoming the top choice of youngsters and adults who craved for intermediate jazz tools so as to learn and practice jazz piano.

Historical facts suggest that jazz grew popular when the touring musicians started singing songs based on themes of big band jazz music among the natives of America especially on the streets of New Orleans from where the touring musicians started their jazz tour in America. The modern style, steady rhythm and bluesy feel of jazz music got shape in New York and Chicago. Gradually jazz became so popular that the era of 1920s is still called as “jazz age” when people attended coaching so as to know how to play and practice jazz piano. By 1930, jazz emerged as the strongest and most popular mainstream music, and standard jazz songs got composed by the popular jazz musicians of that era.

One of the most common reasons for popularity of Big Band Jazz Music is that the musicians play all intermediate jazz tools in it thereby giving audience more time to dance. Another reason which led to the popularity of jazz is that the Lindy Hop dance introduced in 1930s by Charleston promoted solo dance thereby allowing jazz musicians to play for a long time.

Popular Teen Music At Present

August 13th, 2010

Music plays a large part in a teenager’s life. It paves way for them to express their feelings and themselves. Teenagers listen to popular songs from different kinds of music at least four to five hours a day. In reality teens all over the world love to listen to popular songs and are devoted to famous artists and musical genre such as r & b, pop and rock. Modern rock and pop are some of the types of music most teens listen to. Teens find these kinds of music change their moods, furnish their slang, prevail on their conversations and make an ambiance at social gatherings.

MP3, CD players, iPods and the internet maintain teenagers connected to their favorite artists and music most of the time. Teenagers are very selective in choosing music. This variety and selectivity is crucial for teens because it represents the symbolic environment of genres and the preferences are linked to individual or group identity element. That’s why teens choose their songs according to what music style they prefer. In some way, it reflects who they are.

“… it reflects our personality and that’s one reason we are friends, because we like the same kinda stuff.”

“We don’t want to be like everyone else on the streets today. We like to be individual. We admire the stars of Hip Hop”

Classical Music Most Popular Top 100 (21-30)

July 31st, 2010


How many have you heard? www.kickassclassical.com presents the Kickass Classical Top 100 – The most popular classical music made famous in movies, commercials, cartoons, songs, video games and ringtones. http www.facebook.com twitter.com 21 Gershwin “Rhapsody In Blue” 22 Beethoven “Moonlight Sonata” 23 Ravel “Bolero” 24 Tchaikovsky “Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy” from “The Nutcracker” 25 Rosas “Over The Waves” 26 Williams “Imperial March” 27 Mozart “Queen Of The Night” 28 Beethoven “Für Elise” 29 Fucik “Entry Of The Gladiators” 30 Delibes “Flower Duet”

Classical Music Most Popular Top 100 (61-70)

July 22nd, 2010


How many have you heard? www.kickassclassical.com presents the Kickass Classical Top 100 – The most popular classical music made famous in movies, commercials, cartoons, songs, video games and ringtones. http www.facebook.com twitter.com 61 Rossini “La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)” 62 Beethoven “9th Symphony” 63 Brahms “Hungarian Dance No. 5″ 64 Mozart “Piano Sonata No. 16 In C” 65 Handel “Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba” 66 Tchaikovsky “Tea (Chinese Dance)” from “The Nutcracker” 67 Bach “Brandenburg Concerto No. 3″ 68 Prokofiev “Peter And The Wolf: The Story Begins” 69 Tchaikovsky “Romeo And Juliet Fantasy Overture: Love Theme” 70 Verdi “La Donna È Mobile”