Sitar in popular music
While the sitar had earlier been used in jazz and Indian film music, it was from the 1960s onwards that various pop artists in the Western world began to experiment with incorporating the sitar, a classical Indian stringed instrument, within their compositions.
Early uses in Western pop music
The first known use of the sitar in a rock music recording session was made by the Kinks for their song "See My Friends". However, the Yardbirds were more notable when they hired a sitar player to play the main riff for their single "Heart Full of Soul". However, the version with the sitar riff was not released at the time and George Harrison is now recognised as having introduced the instrument to pop music. During a break in the filming of The Beatles' second movie, Help!, Harrison picked up a sitar left on the set as a prop and attempted to play it. His initial interest eventually led to his taking lessons from Pandit Ravi Shankar and Shambhu Das. He subsequently played the instrument on the Beatles song "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" on the LP Rubber Soul in 1965, which became the first released Western pop song to feature the sitar.
Popular music
The term popular music belongs to a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and 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. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional 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 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 music of all ages that appeals to popular tastes, whereas pop music usually refers to a specific musical genre within popular music. The song structure of popular music commonly involves the verse, chorus or refrain, and bridge as the different sections within a piece. With digital access to music, some popular music forms have become global, while others are have wide appeal within the culture of origin. Through hybridity, or mixture across musical genres, new popular music forms are able to be manufactured to reflect the ideals of a global culture. The examples of the African continent, Indonesia, and the Middle East explain how hybridity can develop into new forms of popular music.
Popular Music (film)
Popular Music (Swedish: Populärmusik från Vittula) is a 2004 Swedish comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Mikael Niemi.
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Popular Music from Vittula
Popular Music from Vittula (Swedish: Populärmusik från Vittula) is a novel by Mikael Niemi. It was published in Sweden in 2000, the English translation by Laurie Thompson followed in 2003. A film based on the book was released in 2004.
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Popular Music
by: Aberdeen CityTake a small bite of your meat-loaf and share it with the throne
Tie the tie, you're a handsome date rapist
Put some faces, put some smiles, and all that garbage in your mouth
Lick them with the knowledge that you don't know where they've been
Just like a quarter
Fake like you care and you'll get to go home with her tonight
Tell the friends, you're their biggest hero
Put some faces, put some smiles, and all that garbage in your mouth
Lick them with the knowledge that you don't know where they've been
Just like a quarter on the sidewalk
Starving smiles, so pretty
It will always be this way
No one here is innocent
No one here is on his knees
No one here has got some problems
No one here is a rapist, racist, high-blood pressure, short-tempered
Your face has filled out a bit but you're respectable
Keep it sharp, keep on smiling, we're happy
Put some faces put some smiles, and all that garbage in your mouth
Share them with your children though you don; t know where they've been