Music Revolution In the 20th Century

Mau by Mauro Meloni
Sources: wikipedia.org

Music Revolution In The 20^th Century.

When it all started 50 years ago , teenagers just didn’t have a music that represented them, young people were obliged to listen to listen music their parents listened, because at that time there wasn’t any musician band or singer that would do music for young people. That’s when rock ’n roll appeared and when they started feeling identified with a type of music.

Nowadays, music we can listen to in some way is related to the one that

started more than 50 years ago. This apparently long period of time can also show us how it has changed. Fifty Years seem to be a lot but if you compare it to the rest of history you’ll see it’s not that much. So, music had a very important change in its own history in a very short period of time. But why? I personally think that is because teenagers were given the chance to make music and to express their feelings.

The reason why I think teenagers didn’t have this opportunity of making music is that parents are very concerned about what their children listen

and see , and besides this in those times the education was very strict . It was a revolution from teenagers because it became popular, and had its consequences over a long period of time. At first it was rejected by older people but now that the rock n’ roll generation is older this type of music is much more accepted in the society.

Before this, teenagers just had to learn or listen to country or folklore. But now we have some universal types of music that are listened all around the world. That’s the case of rock,

for example. It has it origins in a mixture of blues, rhythm and blues and gospel. This capacity

to fusion music, I think should be attributed to young people because of the natural

creativity that they have, that generally adults don’t have. And also they gave a different point of view to analyze and feel reality; this made music much richer than it was before this

revolution.

Genres of music have evolved and, because of the influence of other genres, we now we have a

huge variety of them (pop rock, blues rock, folk rock, etc).Another cause of it is the radio which

gained popularity and gave musicians the possibility to be listened nationwide and sometimes

worldwide; and also listeners were able to listen to a wider range of music than before. So this

helped musicians a lot to be influenced by different types of music.

So, to sum up, what we can listen to nowadays is the result of a mixture of a fusion of different genres and technology, which made music to be known everywhere and by everyone, and what’s more important, to have a richer and larger variety of styles.