The Development and Evolution of English Pop Songs in Different Stages

Foreword? order

As an important part of western culture, pop music has profoundly influenced the lives of westerners, especially young people. Since the reform and opening up, the introduction of European and American pop music has also continuously influenced the development of China pop music. More and more young people, while feeling the local pop music, focus on the leading British pop music through the increasingly developed media. English pop music has gone through more than half a century from 1930s to now. In the 1940s, Nat King Cole's profound and broad blues brought spiritual comfort to people. Elvis Presley's rock and roll in the 1950s prompted a generation to realize and awaken. In the 1960s, the Beatles music from Britain set off a rock wave all over the world. American country music and Swedish ABBA disco music are all fantasy music in the 1970s. 80' s is the era when pop music broke out in Europe and America, and the commercialization of music became mature. International superstars such as Manona and Jackson came into being. They display their individuality and lead the trend. By the end of the 20th century, British pop music was presented to people with more diverse styles and colorful forms. ...

This paper introduces the development and evolution of English pop songs in different stages from the perspectives of jazz, country music and rock music.

Styles and genres of British pop music

First of all, jazz

The origin and evolution of jazz: New Orleans jazz → swing music → Bibpop → cold jazz → hard pop → free jazz → rock jazz → Latin jazz and Posanova → fusion jazz → acid jazz.

Second, American country music.

The Swing of Early Western Country Music → Bluegrass Music → Voice of Nashville —— Country Music in 1950s → Rebellious Age of Country Music —— Country Music in 1960s

Third, rock music.

The background, source and development of rock music.

The Development and Evaluation of British Pop Music

Keywords: history of British pop music, brief history of western pop songs

About our investigation

For this research topic, we use Internet search (literature research method) and questionnaire survey (investigation research method).

Our research results mainly include papers, questionnaires, audio of some popular music songs, etc.

As for the questionnaire, the main target of the survey is high school students, so it can only show that this survey only represents their position and has nothing to do with our views and positions. We just use their data to explain this case. According to the survey data, we think that many high school students don't know much about English pop songs, so we think it is necessary to investigate English pop songs and their types.

For example, 136 How many English songs do people listen to? In this question, about 75% of the students think that English songs account for 10% to 20% of the music they listen to, and most of them have 39 students (129). Is it helpful for you to participate in English songs? 30.2% people think English songs are not helpful to study, but 35.7% students think English songs are helpful to oral English. For the way to get English songs, 46.7%( 165 people) were recommended by students according to the leaderboards or the media.

Style and genre development of British pop music

English pop music, also known as pop music, American pop music, as the main body of European English pop music, is mainly developed on the basis of traditional music, folk music and black music in Europe and other countries. With the gradual evolution and development, new forms have emerged, such as jazz, Japanese hutong songs, country music, ragtime blues, rock music and so on. Pop music is different from serious music, because serious music often has profound ideological connotation and some special knowledge levels, which requires the audience to appreciate and taste with their own knowledge and cultivation. For the audience, pop music is short, popular and catchy to sing. It doesn't need more specialization, and it can be understood only by understanding music and perceptual knowledge.

American pop music is more entertaining and commercial. Its self-entertainment comes from African music tradition. The most influential, such as jazz, blues and rock music, all originated from black music.

The style of English pop songs, especially now, has entered a stage of diversified development. From the history of pop music, combined with our data: Do you know several styles or genres of English pop songs? In this question, there are 46 people who choose rock, 32 people who choose jazz and 18 people who choose country, so we will focus on these three aspects.

Research experience

In order to explore the development and evolution of English pop songs in different stages, let more high school students like us understand the development of English pop songs while enjoying them. For this research, every member of our group has never said the word "give up".

Even when we are at a loss, that is, we look up a lot of information with the help of the network search function (most of the information is ambiguous or irrelevant), we are at a loss, and the point of view of Fengyun affects us. Especially after reading Baidu's "Know" column, we are even more puzzled. In this case, Qi Xin, a member of our team, worked together to carefully analyze the collected data and sort it out according to time. Finally, we got the word "synchronous development" put forward by a few people. In fact, English pop songs of the same period also have many styles. They are not developed according to a certain style, but diversified. In the data, we further learned some background at that time, which is one of the biggest gains of our research.

Division of labor and cooperation have cultivated our team spirit. The most important thing is that we have learned the method of studying problems. A rigorous attitude will have a good influence on our future study and make our ability improve continuously. We would like to thank the school, the instructor and the students who were surveyed for their many gains in this research. Thank you for giving us this opportunity. We firmly believe that we will do better in the next research and study!

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