Different Types of popular music.

Music is all around us. We all grew up listening to some type of music. No one can really determine when music began or which cultures had music first. There are stories of its origins that go back to ancient times. "Popular music is music produced for and sold to a broad audience."(1) The types of popular music we are going to look at are jazz, country-and-western music, rhythm-and-blues music (R&B), rock music, …

…TM, ®, Copyright © 2002 Piero Scaruffi. All rights reserved.) http://www.scaruffi.com/history/index.html Magazine Articles/Newspaper Articles 9 Simpson, Janice C., "Time": "Yo! Rap Gets on the Map; Led by groups like Public Enemy", February 5, 1990. 10 Thigpen, David, "Time": "Not for Men; Women Rappers are Breaking the Mold with a Message of their Own", May 27, 1991. Magazine Articles/Newspaper Articles Continued: 11 Samuels, David, "The New Republic": "The Rap on Rap: the Black Music that Isn't Either", November 11, 1991.