MUSIC140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gloria Estefan, Justin Bieber, Diane Warren

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Music
• Course: MUSIC140
• Professor: Simon Wood

Document Summary

Over 100 songs on billboard top 100 songs including 32 top-ten and 9 #1. Artists include: beyonce, lady gaga, justin bieber, celine dion, aerosmith, rod stewart, Gloria estefan, alice cooper, whitney houston, cher, heart, rihanna, chicago, faith hill, Most influencial person in the music world. Dependent on the development of: different from folk or art musics, the industrial revolution. Process that happens in 1600-1700 and really gets going in the 1800s. Got european economy away from trading to an economy based on money (metal and paper) Before: rich and people who have nothing (peasants) nothing in the middle. When we switch to money, we start getting middle class. Middle class are what makes things happen. Cannot cater to peasants, but we can to middle class. Without middle class, we do not have music industry and without the industrial revolution, we don"t have middle class.