How are you?
Following the last week, I am going to
start my 27th lecture.
I had conducted music lectures at Art
Collage JANG in Seoul, South Korea every Saturday from March 2015 to December
2017.
I am going to introduce some of the music
in the lecture with a brief overview of the lecture by the lecture’s order
every Saturday.
Please refer to the following link for my
previous lectures.
The 27th lecture for today is "World
Music: England".
This lecture was the 27th lecture of “ACJ
Music Academy”, which was held on 31 October 2015.
‘England’, along with Spain, was the
country that had the greatest influence on European history, establishing its
own ‘Anglican Church’, and its geopolitical location surrounded by the Atlantic
Ocean protected England from the influence of the Catholics of the European
continent.
In this geopolitical location, England
became the first industrialized country in the world through the ‘Industrial
Revolution’ and the hegemony of the Atlantic Ocean.
This prestige was also the most important
factor in defining traditional British music.
First, England had a multicultural
character in the process of the expansion of imperialism by becoming a winner
of the Atlantic.
On the other hand, rural-based folk
traditions were cut off early with the industry's first industrialization in
the world.
Due to the influence of the preservation
work of tradition that began later in Eastern Europe, British scholars and
composers began to explore their folk music in earnest, but unfortunately many
of them had already been lost at the time.
It was also the result of a lack of
attention to folk music enjoyed by commons under the influence of a long and
strict status society.
The British view for the traditional music
is 'do not artificially restore melodies'.
Instead, the ‘folk revival movement’ was
carried out to pursue modern folk songs based on the tradition.
‘Ewan MacColl’ and ‘A.L. Lloyd’ launched
the ‘British Folk Revival’, a campaign to find the roots of England, and they
attempted to modernize folk songs through the introduction of rock music or
electric guitars.
Due to ‘The Beatles’, who dominated the
world’s pop music market, young people in the UK perceived folk traditions as
old due to the influence of strong pop music culture.
However, as folk revival began in earnest
due to the world music boom in England in the 1980s, British folk music entered
a new phase.
The most important influence of the British
Folk Revival in the 1960s and 1970s was the tradition of ‘vocals’.
This is in line with the tradition of
deep-rooted British choral music, and even today, the British prefer to sing
without a vibrato when singing hymns in the cathedral.
The British folk tradition also embraces
this tradition of unaccompanied harmony, and the beginning of which was a
family group called “The Copper Family”.
The Copper family holds an important
position in the British folk tradition, synonymous with the tradition of
British folk songs.
They became an important figure in British
folk revival in the 1960s, using folk song collections coming down over 200
years as their repertoire, and their influence led to the emergence of many
vocal harmony groups including ‘Young Tradition’.
‘British Pop Music’ is a commercially
produced pop music in the UK that emerged as a softer alternative music to
‘rock and roll’ or ‘rock music’ in the 1950s or later.
British pop music, like American pop music,
was mostly relatively short and simple love songs for the young and focused on
commercial aspects.
But the ‘British Invasion’, led by the
Beatles in the 1960s, changed British pop music quite a bit.
Today, I will introduce 3 music as follows:
1. Dirty Old Town-Ewan MacColl
2. Spencer the Rover-The Copper Family
3. Chicken on a Raft-The Young Tradition
You can listen to all the songs from
following YouTube link.
Next week, I will lecture "World
Music: America" as my 28th lecture.
Thank you.
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