Jared Aulisi

Annotated Bibliography

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Barnes, Tom. "These Charts Show How Drastically Pop Has Changed Over the Past 50

Years." Mic. Mic Network Inc., 10 June 2016. Web. 07 Feb. 2017.

This article really goes into how the pop music world has changed over the past

50 years or so. It compares each decade to one another but also contracts the essay as

well. They break it down into many subcategories that differentiate from one another in

some form. They even compare certain things such as the word choice used over the

decades, song styles, etc. They really break it down into numerous types of tables to

really show you exactly how it can be comparable and contrast each other. The difference

in musicians really could be the ultimate source of all the difference comparisons.

While the article does go into pop music as a whole, the data it contracted could

also be highly inaccurate. Explaining the different words choices on a song is a factor of

change, yes, however it does not really explain how the music element itself changed as a

whole. Explaining how the different artists of each time had different word choices for a

song isnt enough to exclude an actual change. The way music has been written.

produced, and thought out out within the past fifty years and composing that all into one

article would have been a better approach to really grasp the idea of ultimate change in

the music industry. Otherwise diving into the different genres of music would have also

been a good resolution.

Decimals. Billboard, 08 Jan. 2017. Web. 07 Feb. 2017.

This article also shares similar ways of collecting its information. They closely

record and collect data and use selected statistics to express their information out there.

They use all sorts of interactive graphs to distinctly display their data and show exactly

how things differentiate from one another. They even break it down further as to show

the different characteristics in a song that presume the loudness or the different

movements in sound. Which all relates back to the time they were released and the

quality of the sound itself. By using all these types of statistics, they really get technical

with how each individual song is displayed and how it correlates to the data.

He really dove into a deeper understanding of the change in music within the past

couple of decades. Such measures as measuring several elements linking to production

and then comparing that with the different time periods. However the way music has

changed isnt always based on technical information. The legacy of impact left by certain

musicians also plays factor into the different swifts of change in the music industry. How

artists influenced other artists through their sound which could have been briefly touched

on while talking about the different elements in musical production. The article which

relates to the Billboard Music Charts, also doesnt mean you have to necessarily rely on

those to determine change though.

Feb. 2017.

This article particularly talks about the powerhouse vocalist, and international

super-star, Mariah Carey and her impact on music overall. This article expresses all of

her different hit songs and albums and shows how she has influenced other artists such as

Beyonce. They also dive into the different vocal technique she uses after discussing her

vocal abilities as an artist. Mariah is known to have one of the biggest vocal ranges that

the world has even seen, reaching notes that are superhuman like per say. They also

compare and contrast her to other huge names in music such as the popular international

band, U2 and other major artists that released music around the time she has.

While she talks about the musical legend, Mariah Carey as a whole, she doesnt

talk much about how she impacted the music industry as much. She mentioned that she

inspired the musical artist Beyonce but that was all she mentioned on who she's impacted.

It is commonly known that Mariah inspired numerous if not all of the female music

artists that debuted after she has. She could have inspired male artists aswell, its whoever

personally claimed her as a musical inspiration for them. They grasp on the idea that she

pioneered melisma and that Whitney popularized it but she also started other trends that

could also be noted. Another popular one for instance, is the trend of having a rapper as a

feature on a popular R&B or pop song, which is still very common to this very day.

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Katz, Mark. Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music. Charlotte: U of

North Carolina at Charlotte, 2004. Print.

The book goes really deep in all the changes of music that relate to technology.

Starting from the early 1900s when technology was barely around and brand new to

today where there are millions of devices that are used to create music. It grasps an

industrial timeline of the different mechanics and tools used to create music and how they

updated throughout the years. It even dives further into other aspects of music which are

very common today rather than back a couple decades ago, which is music sampling.

This book really grasps a crisp clear resolution of how technology really impacted the

music scene.

While they grasp the idea of how early technology changed music, they dont go

into how modern technology changed music. The only topic that they discussed that is a

modern form of production in music is music sampling from old songs. They didnt seem

to describe how all the modern elements of production go into current music. Even

though the book was written in 2004, there was still many new technological tools that

went into creating music during the early 2000s time period. Recording in a studio and

having all those different buttons and machinery to go into one song wasnt really

introduced into the music industry until the 70s or 80s so they failed to pick up on how

that was a common factor into the technological change of music.

Entertainment, 22 Apr. 2016. Web. 07 Feb. 2017.

The LEMONADE album by Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter was released on

April 23rd 2016 by Parkwood Entertainment. This is her 6th consecutive studio album,

and the 3rd to be released this decade. The song features two major artists such as Abel

Tesfaye who goes by the stage name The Weeknd, and Kendrick Lamar. The song also

features two minor artists, Jack White and James Blake. This album is known to be one

of the most impactful albums in recent U.S. history due to its obvious political and

domestic message about a different variance amongst topics that spread from cheating

affairs to police brutality.

Lemonade touched on several political and controversial issues, which was the

cause of its commercial impact, especially within the United States. Beyonce is known to

have changed the music industry, which often is overlook and underappreciated today.

She did it first with the release of her Self-Titled album back in 2013, and then again

changed its retrospective within the music industry with the release of this universally

acclaimed album. Needless to say, Beyonces huge platform is often seen to change the

music industry quite often and its shown by how certain artists try to follow the same

techniques and patterns that she first pioneered onto music.

of Popular Music: USA 19602010." The Evolution of Popular Music: USA 19602010 |

Open Science. Royal Society, 6 May 2015. Web. 07 Feb. 2017.

Orford, Emily-Jane Hills. "When Did Music Begin?" Decoded Past. Decoded Past, 06

Feb. 2014. Web. 07 Feb. 2017. <[Link]

Ruiz, Rebecca. "Beyonc's 'Lemonade' Is the Powerful Message Women

Need."Mashable. Mashable, 13 July 2016. Web. 07 Feb. 2017.

Schwartz, Alexandra. "10 Strong Messages Beyonc Is Sending Jay Z in Lemonade."

Glamour. Glamour Magazine, 24 Apr. 2016. Web. 07 Feb. 2017.

Snow, Shane. "This Analysis of the Last 50 Years of Pop Music Reveals Just How Much

America Has Changed." The Content Strategist. The Content Strategist, 01 Feb. 2017.

Web. 07 Feb. 2017.