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Folk Music
- Folk songs were mostly made by everyday groups of people, then passed around over centuries
- The top folk singer is considered to be Bob Dylan
- Folk songs have no particular form
https://youtubemusicsucks.com/best-folk-songs-of-all-time-that-everyone-should-know/ -
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Earliest Recorded Music
- The first recorded song, "The Lost Chord", was made in 1888 by Arthur Sullivan
- Wax cylinders and oil lamps were used to help make the earliest song recordings
- A castrato named Alessandro Moreschi was able to record songs off the outlawed song genre during the 20th Century
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Roaring Twenties Music
- A lot of the twenties music was recorded on the radio
- Jazz became a big part of the culture in the Twenties after African Americans brought it to big cities from the South
- Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", was an early, prominent LGBTQ+ singer
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80s Pop Music
- MTV changed pop music through the introduction of music videos, making it a fashionable genre
- Popstars succeeded because of not only how good they were, but because of how interested the outside world was in them
- A lot of popstars held charity concerts to promote social causes such as the Ethiopian famine
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Music Today
- Tik Tok is helping to birth many hot artists through its large amount of users
- An increasing number of around-the-world artists are becoming popular
- Spotify uses playlists to expose people to certain songs while they are doing certain things, creating moods
https://www.musicweek.com/digital/read/viberate-s-state-of-music-report-picks-key-2022-music-industry-trends/085087#:~:text=According%20to%20Viberate%20data%2C%20some,and%20further%20blending%20of%20genres.