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13
1990's and Beyond. The More Things Change...
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  1. Classic Rock
    1. CD reissues
      1. Began in 1980s
      2. A change to new media forces consumers to buy old records again
    2. Radio
      1. Consultants employed to create formatted playlists
      2. "Classic Rock" becomes a format
    3. Rockumentaries
      1. MTV and VH-1 leading proponents
      2. Behind the Music and Legends
      3. Predictable format
      4. Sense of rock history
        1. Video specials, Time-Life series
        2. Museums, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
    4. Older musicians still popular
      1. From the 1960s
        1. Beatles, McCartney
        2. Rolling Stones
        3. Eric Clapton
      2. From the 1970s
        1. Peter Gabriel
        2. Santana
      3. From the 1980s
        1. Bruce Springsteen
        2. U2
        3. Sting
  2. New Traditionalism
    1. Younger roots rockers
    2. Sheryl Crow
      1. Tuesday Night Music Club, 1993
    3. Hootie and the Blowfish
      1. Cracked Rear View, 1994
    4. Counting Crows
      1. August & Everything After, 1993
    5. Wallflowers
      1. Bringing Down the Horse, 1996
    6. Jam bands
      1. Underground culture
        1. Directly from Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers
        2. Live show most important
      2. Phish
      3. Widespread Panic
      4. Blues Traveler
      5. Spin Doctors
      6. Dave Matthews Band
    7. Poppier guitar-driven roots rock
      1. Matchbox 20
      2. Third Eye Blind
  3. Black Pop
    1. Boyz II Men
      1. Returned to earlier styles of rhythm and blues
      2. Cooleyhighharmony, 1991
    2. LaFace
      1. Babyface Edmunds
      2. L.A. Reid
      3. Producers and songwriters
      4. Artists
        1. TLC
        2. Usher
        3. Toni Braxton
    3. Divas
      1. Singing styles that showcased technical dexterity, ornamentation, expression
      2. Whitney Houston
        1. "I Will Always Love You," 1992
        2. The Bodyguard, 1992
      3. Mariah Carey
        1. "Vision of Love," 1990
  4. Teen-Oriented Groups
    1. Boy bands
      1. Lou Pearlman, manager
        1. Backstreet Boys
          1. Millennium, 1999
        2. *NSYNC
          1. No Strings Attached, 2000
          2. Justin Timberlake
    2. Girl groups
      1. Spice Girls
        1. Simon Fuller, manager
        2. Spice, 1997
      2. Teen Girls
        1. Britney Spears
        2. Christina Aguilera
  5. Female Singer-Songwriters
    1. Artists seem to be singing about their own experiences
    2. Tori Amos
      1. Little Earthquakes, 1991
    3. The Indigo Girls
      1. Atlanta-based
      2. Swamp Ophelia (1994)
    4. Liz Phair
      1. Chicago-based
      2. Exile in Guyville (1993)
    5. Ani DiFranco
      1. Ran her own label, Righteous Babe
      2. Not a Pretty Girl, 1995
    6. Canadian
      1. Sarah McLachlan
        1. "Adia," 1997
      2. Alanis Morissette
        1. Jagged Little Pill, 1995
    7. The audience is mainly teenage girls for both teen idols and female singer- songwriters is mainly teenage girls
  6. Electronic Dance Music
    1. Regional dance styles in New York, Chicago, Detroit, England, San Francisco, Los Angeles
    2. After the fall of disco, new records were in short supply
    3. DJs developed techniques to create new music
    4. New York
      1. Larry Levan, Paradise Garage
        1. Garage style
      2. Chicago, Frankie Knuckles
        1. House style
      3. Detroit, Belleville Three (Atkins, May, Saunderson)
        1. Detroit house style
      4. Producers traveled between cities
    5. Rave Culture
      1. American underground dance culture
    6. Mainstream electronic dance music
      1. Fatboy Slim
      2. Chemical Brothers
      3. Moby
    7. As recorded music, sometimes awkward to perform
  7. Rap
    1. A dominant style in the United States during the 1990s
    2. West Coast
      1. Death Row Records
        1. Suge Knight, owner
      2. Dr. Dre
        1. The Chronic, 1993
      3. Snoop Doggie Dogg
        1. Doggystyle, 1993
      4. Tupac Shakur
        1. Me Against the World, 1995
        2. Killed in 1996
    3. East Coast
      1. P. Diddy
        1. Bad Boy Records
      2. Notorious B.I.G.
        1. Ready to Die, 1995
        2. Killed 1997
    4. Wu Tang Clan
      1. Co-op of nine DJs
      2. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), 1993
    5. Will Smith
      1. Family friendly rapper
      2. In addition to music, television and film actor
    6. Eminem
      1. The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
      2. Provoked widespread controversy
  8. Metal and Indie
    1. Rap and rock fusion
      1. Rage Against the Machine
        1. Blended hard-driving rock with mostly rapped vocals
      2. Korn
        1. Heavy, angular, distortion-soaked riffs
        2. Follow the Leader, 1998
      3. Limp Bizkit
      4. System of a Down
      5. Kid Rock
    2. Nine Inch Nails
      1. Industrial
      2. The Downward Spiral, 1994
    3. Marilyn Manson
      1. Fascination with the grotesque
    4. Indie
      1. "Do it yourself" aesthetic
      2. Yo La Tengo
      3. Pavement
        1. Slanted and Enchanted, 1992
      4. Guided by Voices
        1. Bee Thousand, 1994
      5. Critics generally found indie rock to be purer and more direct that mainstream music
      6. Important labels
        1. Matador
        2. Merge
        3. Sub Pop
        4. K Records
        5. Kill Rock Stars
      7. Beck
        1. Indie rocker gone mainstream
        2. "Loser," 1993
      8. Alt-country
        1. Uncle Tupelo
        2. Son Volt
        3. Wilco
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