Pop Music Influences

Pop Music Influences
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Introduction
Pop music, as it is commonly known, came to life in the 60s. It is basically the short form of popular music and has a baseline in Rock and Roll, Urban, Latin and Dance. It is also one of the most influential music genres in the history of America and most parts of the world. Pop music also gave rise the cultural dynamics most of which are alive to date. Popular culture is now part of the community encompassing entertainment, magazines, newspapers, movies, television, books, comics art work, sports and of course music (Schifferes, 2005). All of this came after the industrial revolution as the society was gearing towards leisure and entertainment prompted by economic growth. Pop music also had subtle influences on the cold war, the Vietnam War and the reforms that the American society enjoys today.
Pop music on cold war
The Beatles had just released their first single for EMI, and then Cuban missile crisis started four days later. The single called Love Me Do, had been released on October 11 in the year 1962 and on 15 of the same month American planes doing reconnaissance over Cuba led to the recognition of Russian missiles in Cuba. This was a time when the world was staring down the barrel of a nuclear war. The Beatles lit up the mood, with electrifying lyrics that urged people to live for the moment. No one knew what would happen next, and if it did happen that they were bombed in the faceoff, they would have lived their lives. The relationship that pop music had in the heart of the cultural shifts and the atomic bombs is a complex as understanding the element of climate changes and green economies today. In the blink of doom, it is pop music that gave most of the youths that embraced the music as a beacon of hope. The war had taken away all the moral standings that most adults and the leaders in the society had to offer after the bombings in Hiroshima (Sandbrook, 2013). Music offered the only the youths needed at the time, hope. At the time it was coming from a group of youngsters who did not have anything to with the cold war and the disillusionment that came with it.
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