Western Music

By ElijahI-D
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    1900s - 1920s

  • 1910s

    Ragtime, Early Jazz, Blues. This type of music appeared post slavery and demonstrated black expression.
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    1930s - 1940s

  • 1939 - The Great Depression

    Swing, Big Band, Wartime song, This is when the great depression started, the WWII radio becomes central and music is used to boost the morale of citizens.
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    1950s

  • 1954 - Chuck Berry

    Chuck berry debuted post world war 2 and is the start of teen culture in music.

  • 1956 - Elvis

    This is the period in time when the Rise of rock 'n' roll started taking over the western music scene.
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    1960s

  • 1962 - Civil Rights Movement Peak

    At the peak of the Civil Rights Movement the type of music that resonated in this era was Folk, Motown, and Psychedelic Rock.
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    1970s

  • 1973 - Club Culture

    This is the start of club culture and the beginnings of Disco, Punk, Funk, and early Hip-hop.
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    1980s

  • 1984 - Metal

    This is also the time when Metal music was on the rise due to the mass media rise, consumerism and globalization.

  • 1981 - Beginning of Rap

    This is the start of rap music because of the high usage of media and consumerism.
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    1990s

  • 1992 - Pop

    This is the start of the most recognized music in western culture, pop got popular because of the rise of the internet and youth angst.

  • 1995 - Hip Hop Mainstream and R&B

    This is the period in time where Hip-hop became mainstream because of the rise of internet culture and multiculturalism. This is also the start of RB.
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    2000s

  • 2008 - The use of Auto-Tune and genre-blending

    This is when music was at the biggest turning point because of the introduction of streaming, file sharing, and global crossovers between different cultures and genre of music.
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    2010s - 2020s

  • 2018 - The rise of K-pop

    The Korean genre of music known as "K-pop" made its way to mainstream western media influencing the way people see music outside of the western area.

  • 2020 - Covid-19 and the rise of Tiktok

    At the start of the 2020s there was a virus outbreak known as covid 19 causing everyone to go on lockdown forcing people to have limited entertainment. Music was one of the lights that kept people in good spirits. Tiktok blew up over the lockdown creating a weird genre of music known as "AI Music" which is people copying someone's voice to make a parody of a song.