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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Russian rock | | | |  Russian rock: Encyclopedia II - Russian rock - History
Russian rock - The early 60's.
Prior to the late sixties, music in the Soviet Union was divided into two groups: music published by the Melodya, and everything else. Under this second group were the bards, underground folk singer-songwriters. Bards such as Vladimir Vysotsky and Bulat Okudzhava created the style that is referred to as "author's song" (avtorskaya pesnya), mostly played on unaccompanied acoustic guitar and characterized by a strong accent on lyrics that sometimes carried a subversive meaning. Their ...
See also:Russian rock, Russian rock - History, Russian rock - The early 60's, Russian rock - The late 60's and 70's, Russian rock - The 80's and 90's, Russian rock - Present day, Russian rock - Characteristics Read more here: » Russian rock: Encyclopedia II - Russian rock - History |
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| | | | Russian rock: Encyclopedia - American popular music Starting with the birth of recorded music, American popular music has had a profound effect on music across the world. The country has seen the rise of popular styles that have had a significant influence on global culture, including ragtime, blues, jazz, rock, R & B, doo wop, gospel, soul, funk, heavy metal, punk, disco, house, techno, salsa, grunge and hip hop. In addition, the American music industry is quite diverse, supporting a number of regional styles like zydeco, klezmer and slack-key. The appeal of these styles lies in t ...
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| | | | Russian rock: Encyclopedia II - Mashina Vremeni - Analysis Although presented as a rock group, Mashina Vremeni can not strictly be called a rock group. Through the stages in its development band played in many styles, beginning with imitations of Western rock leaders and ending with the unique Mashina's style. However, experiments are welcomed even now at the end of fourth decade of the group existence. The last album "Mashinalno" reflects the devotion of band members to the music of 1970s with the sound of the 21st century. Album included some Beatles-like songs, punk composition, some blues and so ...
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| | | | Russian rock: Encyclopedia II - Music of Russia - Classical opera and ballet Russia has a long history of classical music innovation. The first important Russian composer was Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857), who added religious and folk elements to classical compositions, composing pioneering operas like Ruslan and Lyudmila and A Life for the Tsar; though these operas were distinctively Russian, they were based on the Italian tradition.
Glinka and the composers who made up The Mighty Handful after him (Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Borodin and César Cui) were often influenced by Russian fol ...
See also:Music of Russia, Music of Russia - Classical opera and ballet, Music of Russia - Soviet Era, Music of Russia - Perestroika Music, Music of Russia - Post-Soviet Music, Music of Russia - Folk music, Music of Russia - Adygea, Music of Russia - Altai, Music of Russia - Armenia, Music of Russia - Bashkir, Music of Russia - Belarus, Music of Russia - Buryatia, Music of Russia - Chechnya, Music of Russia - Dagestan, Music of Russia - Karelia, Music of Russia - Russia, Music of Russia - Sakha, Music of Russia - Tatarstan, Music of Russia - Tuva, Music of Russia - Ukraine Read more here: » Music of Russia: Encyclopedia II - Music of Russia - Classical opera and ballet |
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| | | | Russian rock: Encyclopedia II - American popular music - Early popular song The earliest songs that could be considered American popular music, as opposed to the popular music of a particular region or ethnicity, was the sheet music of the Civil War era. The songs were most often meant for use in minstrel shows, theatrical productions that featured singing, dancing and comic performances. Minstrel shows generally used African American musical instruments and dance, and featured performers with their faces stained black, a technique called blackface See also:American popular music, American popular music - Early popular song, American popular music - Tin Pan Alley, American popular music - Broadway, American popular music - Ragtime, American popular music - Early recorded popular music, American popular music - Popular jazz and swing, American popular music - Blues diversification and popularization, American popular music - 1950s and 60s, American popular music - Country: Nashville Sound, American popular music - Soul, American popular music - 1960s rock, American popular music - 1970s and 80s, American popular music - 70s funk and soul, American popular music - 80s pop, American popular music - Birth of the underground, American popular music - Punk and alternative rock, American popular music - Heavy metal, American popular music - 1990s to the present, American popular music - International and social impact, American popular music - Notes Read more here: » American popular music: Encyclopedia II - American popular music - Early popular song |
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| | | | Russian rock: Encyclopedia II - Music of Russia - Soviet Era In the 1910s romances (in exotic Russian, Caucasian, Gypsy and Italian styles) became very popular. The greatest and most popular singers of romances usually sang in operas at the same time. The most popular was Fyodor Shalyapin. Singers usually composed music and wrote the lyrics, such as Alexander Vertinsky, Konstantin Sokolsky, Pyotr Leshchenko.
The Soviet Era produced many prominent musicians in spite of oppression from the government. Some émigrés remained popular abroad, like pianist Vladimir Horowitz, whose 1986 performance in Moscow, the f ...
See also:Music of Russia, Music of Russia - Classical opera and ballet, Music of Russia - Soviet Era, Music of Russia - Perestroika Music, Music of Russia - Post-Soviet Music, Music of Russia - Folk music, Music of Russia - Adygea, Music of Russia - Altai, Music of Russia - Armenia, Music of Russia - Bashkir, Music of Russia - Belarus, Music of Russia - Buryatia, Music of Russia - Chechnya, Music of Russia - Dagestan, Music of Russia - Karelia, Music of Russia - Russia, Music of Russia - Sakha, Music of Russia - Tatarstan, Music of Russia - Tuva, Music of Russia - Ukraine Read more here: » Music of Russia: Encyclopedia II - Music of Russia - Soviet Era |
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| | | | Russian rock: Encyclopedia II - Music of Russia - Post-Soviet Music Pop Rock: Mumiy Troll, t.A.T.u., Virus, Zemfira, Linda
Electronic: Deadushki, Messer FM
Alternative: Dolphin, Psichea, FAQ, 7000$
Ska Punk: Distemper, Sed'maya Rasa, Elisium
Shanson
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See also:Music of Russia, Music of Russia - Classical opera and ballet, Music of Russia - Soviet Era, Music of Russia - Perestroika Music, Music of Russia - Post-Soviet Music, Music of Russia - Folk music, Music of Russia - Adygea, Music of Russia - Altai, Music of Russia - Armenia, Music of Russia - Bashkir, Music of Russia - Belarus, Music of Russia - Buryatia, Music of Russia - Chechnya, Music of Russia - Dagestan, Music of Russia - Karelia, Music of Russia - Russia, Music of Russia - Sakha, Music of Russia - Tatarstan, Music of Russia - Tuva, Music of Russia - Ukraine Read more here: » Music of Russia: Encyclopedia II - Music of Russia - Post-Soviet Music |
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| | | | Russian rock: Encyclopedia II - American popular music - Early recorded popular music Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph cylinder kicked off the birth of recorded music. The first cylinder to be released was "Semper Fidelis" by the U.S. Marine Band. At first, cylinders were released sparingly, but as their sales grew more profitable, distribution increased. These early recorded songs were a mix of vaudeville, barbershop quartets, marches, opera, novelty songs, and other popular tunes. Many popular standards, such as "The Good Old Summertime", "Shine on Harvest Moon", and "Over There" come from this time. There were a ...
See also:American popular music, American popular music - Early popular song, American popular music - Tin Pan Alley, American popular music - Broadway, American popular music - Ragtime, American popular music - Early recorded popular music, American popular music - Popular jazz and swing, American popular music - Blues diversification and popularization, American popular music - 1950s and 60s, American popular music - Country: Nashville Sound, American popular music - Soul, American popular music - 1960s rock, American popular music - 1970s and 80s, American popular music - 70s funk and soul, American popular music - 80s pop, American popular music - Birth of the underground, American popular music - Punk and alternative rock, American popular music - Heavy metal, American popular music - 1990s to the present, American popular music - International and social impact, American popular music - Notes Read more here: » American popular music: Encyclopedia II - American popular music - Early recorded popular music |
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| | | | Russian rock: Encyclopedia II - American popular music - 1990s to the present Perhaps the most important change in the 1990s in American popular music was the rise of alternative rock and grunge. This was previously an explicitly anti-mainstream grouping of genres that rose to great fame beginning in the early 1990s. Grunge music is an independent-rooted music genre that was inspired by hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock. Grunge has a "dark, brooding guitar-based sludge" sound [74], drawing on elements of bands ...
See also:American popular music, American popular music - Early popular song, American popular music - Tin Pan Alley, American popular music - Broadway, American popular music - Ragtime, American popular music - Early recorded popular music, American popular music - Popular jazz and swing, American popular music - Blues diversification and popularization, American popular music - 1950s and 60s, American popular music - Country: Nashville Sound, American popular music - Soul, American popular music - 1960s rock, American popular music - 1970s and 80s, American popular music - 70s funk and soul, American popular music - 80s pop, American popular music - Birth of the underground, American popular music - Punk and alternative rock, American popular music - Heavy metal, American popular music - 1990s to the present, American popular music - International and social impact, American popular music - Notes Read more here: » American popular music: Encyclopedia II - American popular music - 1990s to the present |
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| | | | Russian rock: Encyclopedia II - Mashina Vremeni - Albums Note: The albums are sorted in the order of their recording, not in the order of their releases.
Mashina Vremeni is one of the best selling artists in Russia, but due to a raging of compute piracy, most of CDs sold are not legal CDs released by recording companies.
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| | | | Russian rock: Encyclopedia II - American popular music - International and social impact American popular music has become extremely popular internationally. Rock, hip hop, jazz, country and other styles have fans across the globe. BBC Radio DJ Andy Kershaw, for example, has noted that country music is popular across virtually the entire world [79]. Indeed, out of "all the contributions made by Americans to world culture... (American popular music) has been taken (most) to heart by the entire world" See also:American popular music, American popular music - Early popular song, American popular music - Tin Pan Alley, American popular music - Broadway, American popular music - Ragtime, American popular music - Early recorded popular music, American popular music - Popular jazz and swing, American popular music - Blues diversification and popularization, American popular music - 1950s and 60s, American popular music - Country: Nashville Sound, American popular music - Soul, American popular music - 1960s rock, American popular music - 1970s and 80s, American popular music - 70s funk and soul, American popular music - 80s pop, American popular music - Birth of the underground, American popular music - Punk and alternative rock, American popular music - Heavy metal, American popular music - 1990s to the present, American popular music - International and social impact, American popular music - Notes Read more here: » American popular music: Encyclopedia II - American popular music - International and social impact |
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| | | | Russian rock: Encyclopedia II - American popular music - 1970s and 80s Following the turbulent political, social and musical changes of the 1960s and early 1970s, rock music diversified. What was formerly known as rock and roll, a reasonably discrete style of music, had evolved into a catchall category called simply rock music, an umbrella term which would eventually include diverse styles like heavy metal music, punk rock and, sometimes even hip hop music. During the '70s, however, most of these styles were not part of mainstream ...
See also:American popular music, American popular music - Early popular song, American popular music - Tin Pan Alley, American popular music - Broadway, American popular music - Ragtime, American popular music - Early recorded popular music, American popular music - Popular jazz and swing, American popular music - Blues diversification and popularization, American popular music - 1950s and 60s, American popular music - Country: Nashville Sound, American popular music - Soul, American popular music - 1960s rock, American popular music - 1970s and 80s, American popular music - 70s funk and soul, American popular music - 80s pop, American popular music - Birth of the underground, American popular music - Punk and alternative rock, American popular music - Heavy metal, American popular music - 1990s to the present, American popular music - International and social impact, American popular music - Notes Read more here: » American popular music: Encyclopedia II - American popular music - 1970s and 80s |
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| | | | Russian rock: Encyclopedia II - American popular music - 1950s and 60s The middle of the 20th century saw a number of very important changes in American popular music. The field of pop music developed tremendously during this period, as the increasingly low price of recorded music stimulated demand and greater profits for the record industry. As a result, music marketing became more and more prominent, resulting in a number of mainstream pop stars whose popularity was previously unheard of. Many of the first such stars were Italian-American crooners like Dean Martin, Rudy Vallee, Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Frank ...
See also:American popular music, American popular music - Early popular song, American popular music - Tin Pan Alley, American popular music - Broadway, American popular music - Ragtime, American popular music - Early recorded popular music, American popular music - Popular jazz and swing, American popular music - Blues diversification and popularization, American popular music - 1950s and 60s, American popular music - Country: Nashville Sound, American popular music - Soul, American popular music - 1960s rock, American popular music - 1970s and 80s, American popular music - 70s funk and soul, American popular music - 80s pop, American popular music - Birth of the underground, American popular music - Punk and alternative rock, American popular music - Heavy metal, American popular music - 1990s to the present, American popular music - International and social impact, American popular music - Notes Read more here: » American popular music: Encyclopedia II - American popular music - 1950s and 60s |
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