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Michael Campbell (pianist And Author)
Michael Campbell (born 1945) is an American pianist, teacher and author. He has written two of the most widely-used college textbooks on the development of popular music, ''Popular Music in America'' (originally titled ''And the Beat Goes On'', first published 1996) and ''Rock and Roll: an Introduction'' (written with James Brody, first published 1999). Biography Campbell was born and grew up in and around San Francisco, California. He attended Amherst College until 1967, and, after graduating, served in the United States Naval Academy Band, where he began studying under Leon Fleisher. He continued studying with Fleisher at Peabody Conservatory, where he gained degrees in piano in 1972 and 1982. At the same time, he worked as a commercial musician with artists including Angela Lansbury, Ethel Merman, and Don McLean. Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular Music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training.Popular Music. (2015). ''Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia'' It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional or "folk" music. Art music was historically disseminated through the performances of written music, although since the beginning of the recording industry, it is also disseminated through recordings. Traditional music forms such as early blues songs or hymns were passed along orally, or to smaller, local audiences. The original application of the term is to music of the 1880s Tin Pan Alley period in the United States. Although popular music sometimes is known as "pop music", the two terms are not interchangeable. Popular music is a generic term for a wide variety of genres of music that appeal to the tastes of a large segment of the populat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
