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Pop Music — A Century of Recorded Sound

Before microphones, before radio stardom — pop was a printed medium. A cluster of music publishers on West 28th Street churned out sheet music by the ream...

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Before microphones, before radio stardom — pop was a printed medium. A cluster of music publishers on West 28th Street churned out sheet music by the ream, with songpluggers banging upright pianos to sell the next hit to vaudeville singers and parlors across America. Key sections include: POP / MUSIC; Tin Pan Alley.; Big Band & Swing.; Crooners & early R&B.; Rock 'n' Roll.; British Invasion.; The 70s.; Hip-Hop.; M T V.; The 90s..

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01POP / MUSIC
02Tin Pan Alley.
03Big Band & Swing.
04Crooners & early R&B.
05Rock 'n' Roll.
06British Invasion.
07The 70s.
08Hip-Hop.
09M T V.
10The 90s.
11Unbundled. Rebundled.
12Algorithmic Pop.
13Liner Notes.

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01POP / MUSIC
02Tin Pan Alley.
03Big Band & Swing.
04Crooners & early R&B.
05Rock 'n' Roll.
06British Invasion.
07The 70s.
08Hip-Hop.
09M T V.
10The 90s.
11Unbundled. Rebundled.
12Algorithmic Pop.
13Liner Notes.

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Slide 01

POP /MUSIC

A1 / SIDE ONE / 33⅓ RPM
LP100 YR
★ ANOTHER RECORDS · CAT-013
A Century of Recorded Sound
13 tracks · 1900 — present · stereo / mono / digital
013-POP
ANOTHER · A CENTURY OF RECORDED SOUND
SIDE A — TRACK 01 / 13

Slide 02

Tin Pan Alley.

TRACK 02 / 28th STREET, NYC
1900— 30s
SIDE A · CHAPTER ONE
Before microphones, before radio stardom — pop was a printed medium. A cluster of music publishers on West 28th Street churned out sheet music by the ream, with songpluggers banging upright pianos to sell the next hit to vaudeville singers and parlors across America.
It was the first industrial pop machine: songwriters as factory hands, hits as units shipped.
Irving Berlin
George Gershwin
Jerome Kern
Cole Porter
A2 · TIN PAN ALLEY · SHEET MUSIC AS POP
02 / 13

Slide 03

Big Band & Swing.

TRACK 03 / DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE PICK
SWING'30 — '49
SIDE A · CHAPTER TWO
Radio networks and ballroom dance turned 14-piece orchestras into the first truly national sound. Saxophones, brass sections, jitterbugging crowds, broadcast live coast-to-coast. Pop became a thing you danced to with strangers — together, in a hall.
A1Take the "A" Train — Duke Ellington2:55
A2Sing, Sing, Sing — Benny Goodman8:43
A3In the Mood — Glenn Miller3:33
A4It Don't Mean a Thing — Ellington3:12
A3 · BIG BAND ERA · DANCE-FLOOR POP
03 / 13

Slide 04

Crooners & early R&B.

TRACK 04 / FOR LATE NIGHT LISTENING
45RPM
SIDE A · CHAPTER THREE
The condenser mic changed the voice. Singers no longer had to bellow over a band — they could whisper, swing, seduce. Sinatra invented the modern pop star. In parallel, Black artists were fusing gospel, blues and jump bands into rhythm & blues — the engine room of everything that follows.
Crooners
Frank Sinatra · Nat King Cole · Bing Crosby · Ella Fitzgerald · Peggy Lee
Early R&B
Ray Charles · Ruth Brown · Louis Jordan · Big Joe Turner · LaVern Baker
A4 · MIC AS INSTRUMENT · 1940s — 50s
04 / 13

Slide 05

Rock 'n' Roll.

TRACK 05 / BANNED IN 4 STATES
ROCKN ROLL
SIDE A · CHAPTER FOUR
Take rhythm & blues, electrify the guitar, hand it to teenagers with cars and disposable income. Sun Records cuts "That's All Right" with a 19-year-old truck driver named Elvis Presley in 1954. Chuck Berry codifies the riff. Little Richard screams down the door. The post-war youth market is born — and so is the modern teen idol.
Elvis Presley
Chuck Berry
Little Richard
Buddy Holly
Bo Diddley
Fats Domino
A5 · ROCK 'N' ROLL · TEEN MARKET BORN
05 / 13

Slide 06

British Invasion.

TRACK 06 / ED SULLIVAN, FEB 9 1964
'64+
SIDE B · CHAPTER FIVE
73 million Americans watch The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. By summer, the top of the US chart is a UK occupation: Stones, Kinks, Who, Yardbirds. They give back to America what America had given them — its own R&B and rock — but with art-school hair and four-part harmony.
Meanwhile in Detroit, Berry Gordy's Motown is running its own assembly line: The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson. The Sound of Young America, in stereo.
Beatles
Rolling Stones
Supremes
Marvin Gaye
Stevie Wonder
B1 · BRITISH INVASION × MOTOWN
06 / 13

Slide 07

The 70s.

TRACK 07 / GATEFOLD SLEEVE EDITION
LP'70s
SIDE B · CHAPTER SIX
The album becomes the unit. Concept records, side-long suites, gatefolds you'd stare at while the needle dropped. Three reactions wrestle for the decade:
PROG / SOFT ROCK
Pink Floyd, Yes, Fleetwood Mac. Album-as-art-form, side B as long-form storytelling.
DISCO
Donna Summer, Bee Gees, Chic. The four-on-the-floor; the dancefloor as utopia.
PUNK
Ramones, Sex Pistols, Patti Smith. Three chords, a sneer, and the year zero.
FUNK / SOUL
Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth Wind & Fire. The bassline gets political.
B2 · THE 1970s · ALBUM AS ART FORM
07 / 13

Slide 08

Hip-Hop.

TRACK 08 / 1520 SEDGWICK AVE, BRONX
'73→
SIDE B · CHAPTER SEVEN
August 11, 1973. A back-to-school party in a Bronx rec room. DJ Kool Herc isolates the drum break, loops it on two turntables. His sister Cindy charges 25 cents. Fifty years later it is the dominant pop language on Earth.
Four pillars — DJing, MCing, b-boying, graffiti — go from block parties to Def Jam to global streaming charts. Run-DMC, Public Enemy, NWA, Wu-Tang, Tribe, Biggie, Tupac, Jay-Z, Kanye, Drake, Kendrick.
B3 · HIP-HOP · BRONX → THE WORLD
08 / 13

Slide 09

M T V.

TRACK 09 / VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR
MTV'81
SIDE B · CHAPTER EIGHT
1 August 1981, 12:01 a.m. A 24-hour cable channel launches with The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star." Within five years a song without a video is barely a song. Pop becomes visual — choreography, fashion, narrative, brand. Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, Duran Duran. Thriller sells 70 million copies.
For the first time, what a song looks like matters as much as what it sounds like. The director is now part of the band.
B4 · MTV · POP BECOMES VISUAL
09 / 13

Slide 10

The 90s.

TRACK 10 / EXPLICIT LYRICS · PARENTAL ADVISORY
CD'90s
SIDE C · CHAPTER NINE
The CD made labels rich; MTV made everyone famous; the genre wars made the charts a battlefield. Four scenes split the decade open simultaneously:
C1Smells Like Teen Spirit — Nirvana (grunge, Seattle)1991
C2Common People — Pulp (Britpop, Sheffield)1995
C3Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang — Dr. Dre & Snoop (gangsta rap, LA)1992
C4Born Slippy — Underworld (electronic / rave)1995
C5…Baby One More Time — Britney Spears (teen pop reset)1998
By decade's end, a college kid named Shawn Fanning is writing a little app called Napster. The bottom is about to fall out.
C1 · THE 1990s · GENRE WARS
10 / 13

Slide 11

Unbundled. Rebundled.

TRACK 11 / 99¢ PER SONG
.MP3'01
SIDE C · CHAPTER TEN
Napster (1999) shows the album is dead. iTunes (2001) sells the song — a single track at a time, 99 cents, no filler. Album sales collapse from $14B (1999) to $7B (2009). Then Spotify (2008) rebundles everything: not the album, but all music, for one monthly fee.
UNBUNDLE (2001)
iPod + iTunes Store. Pay per track. The album loses its grip.
REBUNDLE (2008)
Spotify. All music for $9.99/mo. The playlist becomes the new album.
C2 · iTUNES → SPOTIFY · UNBUNDLE / REBUNDLE
11 / 13

Slide 12

Algorithmic Pop.

TRACK 12 / FOR YOU PAGE
FYPNOW
SIDE C · CHAPTER ELEVEN
The streaming/social era rewires what a hit even is. Songs front-load their hooks (you have 30 seconds before a skip). Choruses arrive at second 7. TikTok turns 15-second loops into chart positions. Spotify's playlists become the new radio.
Pop also de-centres: K-pop (BTS, Blackpink) goes global. Reggaeton (Bad Bunny) eats the charts in Spanish. Afrobeats (Burna Boy, Wizkid) crosses over. The American pop monoculture, for the first time in a century, is no longer the default.
BTS
Bad Bunny
Taylor Swift
Burna Boy
Olivia Rodrigo
C3 · STREAMING ERA · ALGORITHMS & K-POP
12 / 13

Slide 13

Liner Notes.

TRACK 13 / RUN-OUT GROOVE
BSIDE
END OF SIDE C · LIFT THE NEEDLE
A century in 13 tracks: from songpluggers banging Berlin tunes on West 28th Street to algorithms recommending you Burna Boy at 3am. The medium kept changing — sheet, shellac, vinyl, tape, CD, MP3, stream — but the job stayed the same: three minutes of melody you can't stop humming.
FURTHER LISTENING / REFERENCES
· Bob Stanley — Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop (2013)
· Jeff Chang — Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (2005)
· David Hepworth — 1971: Never a Dull Moment (2016)
· Steve Knopper — Appetite for Self-Destruction (the music industry post-Napster)
· Liz Pelly — Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (2025)
▶ YouTube: history of pop music
▶ YouTube: hip hop history bronx
RUN-OUT · ANOTHER RECORDS · 2026
13 / 13 · END

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