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[Article/Music] The Rise and Fall of Easy Listening


The Rise and Fall of Easy Listening - WSJ

Found now largely on satellite radio stations, easy-listening music has a long history that dates back 70 years to the end of World War II, when ...

The Rise and Fall of Easy Listening - RadioWest.ca

Ridiculed in the 1960s and since as “elevator music,” the gentle genre was marketed then as music for frazzled adults run ragged by the decade's ...

The strange death of easy listening | The Week

What I didn't realize until recently is that this was a good thing. Unlike most of the stuff on the pop charts, what used to be called "easy ...

Why did Easy Listening die? - Miscellaneous Music - organissimo

The short answer is that other genres or sub-genres of music essentially filled the "easy listening" void for more recent generations of listeners.

[Article/Music] The Rise and Fall of Easy Listening

Marc Myers at the Wall Street Journal writes on one of the most maligned genres, Easy Listening.

Easy Listening = Alternative Music + Time - WSJ

To my joy, “Fall on Me” by R.E.M. was playing in the car. The ballad from the 1986 album “Lifes Rich Pageant” was a mainstay of my adolescence, ...

The trouble with easy listening - Los Angeles Times

After 20 years of amassing music, I had more than 4,000 albums, most of them stacked precariously in my basement. The more I used iTunes, the ...

Music Only for a Woman: The Birth of Easy Listening - JSTOR Daily

An enterprising radio producer named Ed Peters had an idea. What if there was a radio format that was just for women?

Easy Listening Music Blowout! - No Recess!

Consider this as the other side to easy listening, the style with which they hoped to snag a younger listening audience. Even to the casual ...

Popularity of easy listening mood music rising among youth - LinkedIn

The Khruanghbin effect: The rise in popularity of easy listening music among youth · More articles by this author · Insights from the community.

Is Music Getting Simpler - NeuroLogica Blog

Further, the structure of the lyrics are getting simpler, and they are more readable and easier to understand. Also, the use of emotional words ...

12 - Other mainstreams: light music and easy listening, 1920–70

It should be stated at the outset that light music and easy listening are not diluted forms of heavy music and difficult listening prepared for those with ...

Music for Middlebrows: Defining the Easy Listening Era, 1946–1966

58 Jack Gould of the New York Times begins to use "easy listening" regularly in his radio reviews as of 1946;. "Dynamic Parade of Easy Listening ...

Drowned in sound: how listening to music hinders learning

In his series of articles on how psychology research can inform teaching, Bradley Busch picks an academic study and makes sense of it for ...

Is Old Music Killing New Music? - The Atlantic

But the news gets worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking. All the growth in the market is coming from old songs. U.S Catalog vs.

The Rise and Fall of Melody | THINKING ON MUSIC - WordPress.com

” With this simple ... Visit Jonathan's website to keep up on his latest endeavors, browse his book and article archives, and listen to sample ...

The Rise and Fall of Popular Music - Donald Clarke's Music Box

Thousands of tenth-rate songs were published, while the craft of interpretation of good songs fell by the wayside; and the customers had been plugged into their ...

These scientists explain the power of music to spark awe - NPR

Many of us know that feeling of being transported by a song. Research reveals that listening to music can have profound effects on our mind ...

The psychological functions of music listening - PMC

Part one of the paper reviews the research contributions that have explicitly referred to musical functions. It is concluded that a comprehensive investigation ...

The Case for Listening to Complete Discographies | The New Yorker

Colin Marshall on his experience listening to the entire discographies of artists (such as David Bowie, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, ...