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Mauch, Matthias et al. The articles primary Matthias and his
" The Evolution of author is Dr. Matthias colleagues often
Popular Music: USA Mauch. Mauch is a compared the change
19602010. professor at the in music over time to
http://rsos.royalsociet Queen Mary the evolutions of
ypublishing.org/conte University of London. humans, making
nt/2/5/150081. Mauch, accompanied several references to
by MacCallum and evolutionary biology
Leroi conducted a throughout the study.
comprehensive study Due to the amount of
of approximately research conducted
17000 chart topping for this study, I will
recordings in an most likely reference
analysis of trends. it on several
They discovered that occasions during my
changes in music study. However, the
occurred primarily in article does very little
the form of to address my main
revolutions, which question, what
resulted in intense causes pop music to
change in pop music. change? The article
They found three does more to confirm
different revolutions that pop music does
during the years change and to further
1964, 1983, and explain how and
1991. 1964 was a when.
major year in the civil
rights movement and
The Beatles were at
the forefront of pop
music. In 1983 The
United States was in a
recession with
unemployment at 12
million and popular
artists at the time
included Phil Collins,
David Bowie, and
Elton John. In 1991,
the United States
began was with Iraq
and popular artists
included Michael
Jackson, Metallica,
and Cher.
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Lamm, Nickolay. "An This article had very The graphics used in
Analysis Of Money, little text and Lamm this article certainly
Love, And Sex focused much more do not help to explain
In Music." on visuals. The article why music is
Thought Catalog. contained twenty-one changing; however
http://thoughtcatalog. different graphs that the graphics certainly
com/nickolay- showed how different show how lyrics are
lamm/2014/02/an- subject matter was changing over time.
analysis-of-money- reflected in lyrics over This article focused
love-and-sex-in- time. Nickolay Lamm primarily on subject
music/. is primarily a graphic matter and put very
designer however he little emphasis on the
conducted thorough stylistic evolution of
research of lyrical music. I doubt that I
subject matter for this will refer back to this
study. This article article on a
shows a positive particularly frequent
correlation in vulgarity basis, however the
and foul subject trends displayed are
matter in lyrics of certainly notable.
music over the course
of the last fifty years.
Estes, Adam Clark. In this article, Glenn This article also does
"How Music Has McDonald analyzes not address why
Evolved in the Past 70 the 5000 most music is changing in
Years." popular songs from the manner that it has
Gizmodo. every year between over time and I think
http://gizmodo.com/h 1950 and 2013 for that I may have to
ow-music-has- several attributes. He speculate what is
evolved-in-the-past- analyzed the songs changing music rather
70-years- for energy, beat than simply finding
1485770090. accuracy, answers through
syncopation, tempo, research. However,
volume, etc. He found this article describes
several trends and several clear changes
displayed them in music overtime,
through line graphs. which certainly
These graphs show confirms the validity
that music has grown of the question that I
faster, louder, less am asking. In
acoustic, less organic, addition, this article
and overall more features several clear
energetic. The article graphics that visually
addresses musical describe the changes
trends but does not in music.
put any focus on
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lyrical content or
cause for musical
changes.
Scaruffi, Pierro. "A This source is the first
This is one of the only
History of Pop Music." chapter from articles that I have
http://www.scaruffi.co Scaruffis book, A found as of now that
m/history/pop50.html. History of Popular relates to the impact
Music. This chapter of culture on popular
specifically was calledmusic. There appears
Post War Pop Music in to be a lack of
the USA. Scaruffi research analyzing
focuses primarily on what causes popular
the effect of World music to change.
War 2 on music. However, Scaruffi
Scaruffi makes several addresses this and I
references to popular believe that I will find
musicians and their this article incredibly
respective influences. useful. His mentioning
He also mentions the of the radio is an
influence of the radio interesting point that I
on popular music. had not specifically
thought of. However,
this reference to the
radio does support my
findings that pop
music has been
largely shaped by
technology.
White, Sharon. This author focuses on This article directly
Evolution of Pop the change of music relates to my question
Music 1950-2000. over time, placing and does the best job
http://www.popularso great emphasis on the of answering it.
ng.org/evolution.html. technological and While I will certainly
current events of each need to do far more
time period. This research than just this
article mentions the article, this is the only
origins of several article that I have
different genres and currently found that
discusses what addresses why music
caused these different changes.
genres to emerge.
White mentions the
influence of changing
technologies and
governmental events
on music.
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"How Pop Music The authors of this In my mindset of

Began--and article focused on technology affecting
Evolved." Bright Hub popular music since popular music, it had
Education. roughly the 1800s. It never quite dawned
http://www.brighthube focuses primarily on on me that printed
ducation.com/social- music from the sheet music would
studies-help/123260- nineteenth century certainly qualify as
studying-pop-culture- and onwards. This technology. However,
music-evolution/. article discusses how it allowed for the
the invention of sheet spreading of music
music dramatically before recorded music
affected the musical was available to the
landscape in the early public. Not to
1900s. While mention, it allowed
recorded music was composers to be
still not readily properly credited for
available to the public their work.
as it is today, sheet
music allowed music
to spread. Sheet
music also established
the groundwork for
modern music
publishing. This article
also mentioned the
difference between
pop and rhythm
and blues, which
were originally made
distinct from each
other in order to
signify a racial
difference between
the two; pop music
was made by
Caucasians, rhythm
and blues was made
by African Americans.
Ferroni, Nicholas. "The Ferroni focuses almost While I dont think
Philosopher Who entirely on nineteenth that I will use an
Indirectly Influenced century philosopher, excessive amount of
Music and Pop Friedrich Nietzsche. research from this
Culture." The More specifically it article, I found it
Huffington Post. focuses on his quote, extremely interesting.
http://www.huffington Was ihn nicht One quote from a
post.com/nicholas- umbringt, macht ihn philosopher that it is
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ferroni/entertainment- starker, which more than likely, most

influence- roughly translates to, people are entirely
_b_1620222.html. what does not kill me unaware of, said a
makes me stronger. quote that would be
The articles main used in music for
point is that this one centuries. This does
quote has not in any way affect
dramatically impacted the sound of pop
lyrical content of music or music at all
music for centuries for that matter.
regardless of genres. However, it certainly
does address how
culture has impacted
musical lyrics over
time as well as how
little musics subject
matter has changed
over the years.
Burris, Jeremy. Music Burris focuses on the While my research will
in American Popular influence of music on certainly focus on the
Culture. culture. The article impact of culture and
http://www.americanp makes reference of society on pop music,
opularculture.com/arc several different I think it will be
hive/music/iconograp aspects of how music interesting to study
hy.htm. has impacted pop the opposite
culture. From the relationship; the
artists, to their style influence of music on
of music, to the society. This is a topic
musics lyrical that I have failed to
content, it all has a research so far. While
profound impact of it does not directly
society. This impact pertain to my
makes artists into question, what has
icons and lyrics into caused pop music to
emotions. grow and change in
the past 60 years? I
believe that the
viewpoint taken in this
article will offer a
different perspective
to my research.
The Evolution of The author of this The points discussed
Creativity- How article addresses how in this article directly
Technology Changes technology has address one of the
Music changed music. The main points of my
http://www.therealmu author discusses research: technology
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sician.com/how- sharing options, which is impacting music

technology-changes- allow for (pop or otherwise). I
music.html unprecedented thought it was
collaboration across interesting how the
the globe. The author author discussed how
also discusses the technology has
invention of DAWs influenced him/her
(Digital Audio personally, discussing
Workstations), which how the use of
have allowed individual electronic
musicians to take a samples changes how
far more independent he/she composes
approach to creating music.
music. These
technological
innovations have also
allowed musicians to
get by with less and
less technical ability
than was required in
the past.
Constantin, Roxanne. In this article, Constantin addresses
How Has Politics Constantin discusses the other main point
Affected Music Over how politics have of my research:
the Years? impacted music over politics impact music.
https://www.quora.co the years. She She makes few
m/How-has-politics- discusses the references to pop
affected-music-over- invention of the music specifically,
the-years printing press as well though she does refer
as how the printing to the punk
press was movement, which
monopolized which would have been
led to the idea of considered a form of
musical rights. She pop music at the time.
also discusses
censorship as well as
how politics (in a
more traditional
sense) led to the punk
and anarchist
movements in the
70s and 80s. She
also discusses
freedom of
broadcasting which
was initially disputed
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because it was
thought that
broadcasting freedom
would create
unwanted competition
for the BBC.