Unit 6

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Popular urban music:

- Taught by yourself, learnt from other musicians or studied in a special school

- Recorded, with the personal style of the performer

- Simple and catchy melodies

- Known composer, famous performer

- Performed by professional or self-taught musicians in a place not designed specifically for that music, and broadcasted my the media.

It takes inspiration from the melodies of classical music. Ex: Country music started as folk music, but has taken inspiration from blues and soul.

Popular music in other places:

- Afrobeat: Africa, 1970s, repetitive rythm and based on improvisation.

- Bhangra: Pakistan (India), originated in an annual festival for spring. It combines indian drums with electronic disco music.

- Reggaeton: Latam, 1970s, mixes the rythms of hip-hop and Jamaican reggae with (now added) rap.

- Rai: Algeria, 20th century, popular in the 1970s. It has Algerian instruments and synthesithers, drums and guitars. It has a strong pollitical meaning, because it's used to question the social system. It got censored, but it was so popular that it was legalised again in 1985.

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Diatonic Scale (C):

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Pentatonic Scale (C):

T T S T S

Chromatic:

S S S S S S S S S S S S