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For that techy, yet oldschool music lover

It’s hard enough to be cool in general, but it’s super hard to be cool when you’re involved with a hipster—someone so cool that they’re anti-cool, and the sheer enormity of that anti-coolness makes them cooler than a thousand cool people all locked in a freezer together.

Buying tech for a hipster is easy, though. Think of a current technology, then backtrack to the technology it replaced. Repeat once more, and you’re set. In this case, MP3s replaced CDs which replaced tapes.

The mixtape is an integral part of musical history. It has been used to start relationships, mend them after fights, and just to show someone how good your musical taste! While many people miss the style of a good old cassette tape, there’s not much they can do. The cassette, as we knew it, is dead. Long live the Retro USB Mix Tape Stick!! The USB stick holds 128 MB of memory.

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Do You Enjoy Baroque Music?

Classical music can be traced back hundred of years ago, from the 1600s when commencement of new form of music style had emerged after the Renaissance period and what is now known as Baroque music.

Baroque music composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and Henry Purcell, left distinguished legacy of classical music worldwide.

Today it is likely to be played among classical music stations the famous Brandenburg Concertos and Air on G String which are composed more than three hundred years ago by JSBach.

Vivaldi wrote the Four Seasons, of which the Spring movement is one with the most recognizable pieces of Baroque music and classical music, for that matter ever written.

Purcell, the renowned English composer, wrote Dido and Aeneas, which may perhaps rank as the greatest opera ever to come out on the Baroque period of classical music.

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GOSPEL MUSIC IN HISTORY

Gospel music has been, throughout gospel music history, an integral part of Christian worship since the foundation of the first church buildings. The expanded denominational movement made the idea of composing hymns for congregational singing more accepted. When immigrants began to colonize the United States, plenty of them used this gospel music in the coursework of often lengthy worship services. Historically, gospel music formed the basis that composers used with the musical styles of their times to generate new hymns.

When the slave trade introduced native Africans to this land, plenty of these slaves brought with them a custom of spiritual songs, which were probably the forerunners of modern day gospel music. Christian worship became a central part of the African-American community, & gospel music formed the basis of their worship style.

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Schoenberg, Rap Music’c Early Grandfather

Rap music has been around longer than we thought. In the arts everything is recycled (many times stolen and recycled). We have had bell bottoms make a return in fashion, the bringing back of muscle cars on the road, big haired metal bands making come backs in concert and Neo-soul music which is…new soul music. Of course many are aware that the Hip hop culture and its music started in the boogie down Bronx in the 70′s but the style or monotonous melody delivery may have been grand fathered even further back. The likes of social movement groups such as the Last Poets who released a Billboard Charting album in the 1970′s, rhythmic vocals precedes the combining of lyrics over DJ breaks by delivering a lyrical flow of poetry to the beat of ethnic drums and instrumentation. The style which resembles closely the current Def Jam Poetry series or other earlier African American poets is not far off the beat of rap. You can link traces of both to the African Griots oral tradition.

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Rock Music – History and Facts Revealed

Rock music is often associated with heavy instrumentation, reverberating through a sound system, and played by hyperactive musicians wearing all-black garb. This kind of music has enjoyed over half a century of popularity with its strong beat and catchy melody.


Rock music started in the 1940s and the 1950s as a fusion of rhythm and blues, gospel music, and country music. Originally known as rock and roll, as branded by disc jockey Alan Feed from Ohio, rock music combined influences resulted in simple blues-based style that was fast and danceable.


Instrumentation for rock music often include electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, and keyboards. Others add to their line-up reed instruments like the saxophone and the French horn. String instruments like the mandolin and the sitar are occasionally seen in the realm of rock music. Of all these instrumentations, it is the guitar that is considered to be the star of the show. Guitars come as solid electric, hollow electric or acoustic.

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Alternative Music – History and Facts Revealed

The evolution of music has brought forth hundreds of music variations in so many forms to the basic music categories. This diversity in music forms have categorized in alternative music those ish style music that come as slight style alterations to most popular music forms (i.e. alternative rock or rock-ish music for rock music that does not really fit into the mainstream genres of a particular time period).


Alternative music is a category coined as a sort of catch-all for those sub-genres that are unclassified but can be traced with similarities to popular genres. These alternative music are usually those that were not released commercially and are recorded on independent labels. Some music from this category, from word of mouth, would soon find its way into the mainstream and become commercially successful.

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Music : Jazz music in the 1920s

By the 1920s, most people would agree, jazz was centered in Chicago, although it had had its origins earlier in New Orleans. It grew out of the blues and ragtime (though some say ragtime is jazz), out of African music and culture, from work songs, spirituals and forced exposure to new cultural influences and European instruments.

Jazz is music of layered rhythms and bent notes. It features syncopation, changing the emphasis within bars of music in surprising and delightful ways, improvisation, changing the music as it is played, and the special style imparted by each brilliant performer who has dedicated himself or herself to making music.

Mamie Smith first recorded in Chicago in 1920. Her work is often thought of as blues, but her first record, which amazingly sold 2 million copies, opened the door for recording by other jazz performers. She began as a dancer in vaudeville, but eventually sang with such performers as Bubber Miley and Coleman Hawkins.

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