Country Pop is killing off regional country music
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ducati_EL34
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Prove it. Where there is regional country, there are artists writing music and doing live performances. There is also youtube and such to get your music heard.
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Johnno_Oz
W-a-y down south
I've always related to these quotes on wikipedia from Sociomusicologist Simon Frith. Put into words what I sort of knew!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music
According to Simon Frith pop music is produced
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music
According to Simon Frith pop music is produced
- as a matter of enterprise not art
- designed to appeal to everyone
- doesn't come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste
- not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward ... and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative
- provided from on high (by record companies, radio programmers and concert promoters) rather than being made from below
- Pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged
ducati_EL34
Addicted Member
So what is your point? Sure it is produced, just like the gin I am drinking. I did not make it. Nevertheless, it still tastes good!
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Catcher10
Prog-tastic!
I've seen these before and basically agree.....sorry to derail from Country topic...but POP music today, is like a can labeled "BEER", its generic and made to satisfy the masses. A 4/4 beat with chorus-verse-chorus-verse-chorus is the basic formula for pop music, its easy makes you tap your foot to anything with lyrical topics that are again generic and very "samey", designed to appeal to the masses...a can of "BEER".
QRanc
Well-Known Member
I think the highlighted points are meant to be read only:
"Pop is killing music".
I don't agree with this either.
I think most people here have an aversion to radio friendly music of any kind. It's all "pop" music of one form or another. Be it country, R and B, or dance music, it's all part of the big business that is music. There is nothing wrong with liking or enjoying it, it's all a matter of taste. There is also no point in arguing against the fact that it is music made to be enjoyed by the masses. It's all fairly homogeneous and inoffensive, with few exceptions. In all fairness record companies need to make money, so they tend to not take chances.
To say that pop country or pop music of any kind is killing off regional or independent music is a bunch of garbage. People will always be making music, and trying to reach an audience with it. These artists would be the ones who are writing music they like, and hoping others will too. Many people regard it as an art and not a commodity, and this will never, ever change.
The original article, while interesting, is just a music fan throwing a fit because his favorite music is being adopted by the masses. Boo hoo.
My first boss in radio had a definition of country music that he swore by:
A---It had to be by a country artist.
B---It had to use country instrumentation.
C---It had to tell a story.
He contended that if a song had any two of the three...it was country. And, after 45 years...I think he might have been right.
My "fun job" is keeping the radio flame lit weekends at a 100kW country FM...so I hear it all...from the modern tunes that incorporate a bit of rap to much more traditional sounds. The more modern sounds attract (and hold) a younger audience...who then absorbs the more "traditional" sounds that are part of the playlist.
Right now my current fave tune is Blake Shelton's "Neon Light". Now THAT'S country!
A---It had to be by a country artist.
B---It had to use country instrumentation.
C---It had to tell a story.
He contended that if a song had any two of the three...it was country. And, after 45 years...I think he might have been right.
My "fun job" is keeping the radio flame lit weekends at a 100kW country FM...so I hear it all...from the modern tunes that incorporate a bit of rap to much more traditional sounds. The more modern sounds attract (and hold) a younger audience...who then absorbs the more "traditional" sounds that are part of the playlist.
Right now my current fave tune is Blake Shelton's "Neon Light". Now THAT'S country!
Hifidelity1
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I think old style Country Music will eventually morph the same path as Mountain Music did in my area. Living all my life in the Ozark Mountains, I have for years-- as a kid and as an adult-- been a part of a unique mountain tradition. Nearly every weekend evening folks gather at several different locations---Bob’s Picking’ Shed, Grandma’s Picking’ Porch, a large oak tree in the center of town, the historic court square, etc. for impromptu sessions of “old style” music. Folks bring chairs and sit in the cool evening air to listen. There is no particular starting time; Mountain Music Time in the Arkansas Ozarks is "when it happens, it happens." Players do not use electric instruments. The music is the way music is meant to be – unamplified (old timers here believe the electric guitar forever changed music), played and sung for the pure joy of it and not for money. I love the spontaneity when a young 12 year old boy raises his fiddle and starts playing the tune “Orange Blossom Special” and the arrangement is created on the spot with all of the instruments getting their turn. Pure fun!!
Because no loud speakers blare, several groups of musicians can play near one another without stomping on anyone's toes. Devil’s box (slang for fiddles), banjos, dulcimers, mandolins, guitars, doghouse basses (slang term for upright bass) and sometimes harmonicas are the sounds you hear. They play because they love the music. I may not see it in my lifetime, but I believe the true genre called Country Music will someday become this type of regional tradition rather than be ‘killed’ off.
Because no loud speakers blare, several groups of musicians can play near one another without stomping on anyone's toes. Devil’s box (slang for fiddles), banjos, dulcimers, mandolins, guitars, doghouse basses (slang term for upright bass) and sometimes harmonicas are the sounds you hear. They play because they love the music. I may not see it in my lifetime, but I believe the true genre called Country Music will someday become this type of regional tradition rather than be ‘killed’ off.