find an online recording of three primary forms of modern music: folk music, popular music and art music (which represents "high culture" in this course).  While each of these differs in terms of form, audience, and technology used for recording and transmission, all three have a fundamental role in modern American culture. Students are expected to comprehend the essential characteristics of each of these three musical forms, find an example of each form, and briefly discuss (in roughly 75 words per example) why each example is an appropriate representation of the musical form.  To be clear, you are  required to accomplish the following :  Go on the Web and  find examples  of folk music, art (classical) music and popular music. Your post should contain hyperlinks to your examples and  three 75-word explanations as to why you feel they fit the forms mentioned . Since these explanations include why the song is an example of the type of music assigned to it, mention some of the characteristics associated with each form.  Here are some abbreviated characteristics of each music form, as described in Oxford Music Online, which contains more lengthy descriptions (it is found within the  CSU-Chico library’s Databases A-Z ). Art Music “The story of American art music chronicles the rise of the composer in the United States. At no time have such composers controlled or dominated American concert life, however. Their historical role has been to take Old World practices as a starting point and to complement repertories that are chiefly European with works of their own. Although some 20th-century American composers have opened up fresh artistic territory, art music in America, even into the later years of the 20th century, has continued to revolve around the performance of European classics.” Folk Music “This concept has been defined and developed in multiple ways by collectors, scholars and practitioners, within different geographical locations and in different historical periods. Widely used in Europe and the Americas, it has been used both covertly and overtly in the construction and negation of identities in relation to class, nation or ethnicity and continues to be the source of controversy and heated debate. At its root lie questions about the identity and identification of the ‘folk’, the delimitation of musical repertories, how these repertories are transmitted and the assessment of sounds.” Popular Music “A common approach to defining popular music is to link popularity with scale of activity. Usually this is measured in terms of consumption, for example by counting sales of sheet music or recordings. Another common approach is to link popularity with means of dissemination, and particularly with the development and role of mass media. It is true that the history of popular music is intimately connected with the technologies of mass distribution (print, recording, radio, film etc.); yet a piece that could be described as ‘popular mus.

1. find an online recording of three primary forms of modern
music: folk music, popular music and art music (which
represents "high culture" in this course). While each of these
differs in terms of form, audience, and technology used for
recording and transmission, all three have a fundamental role in
modern American culture.
Students are expected to comprehend the essential
characteristics of each of these three musical forms, find an
example of each form, and briefly discuss (in roughly 75 words
per example) why each example is an appropriate representation
of the musical form.
To be clear, you are
required to accomplish the following
:
Go on the Web and
find examples
of folk music, art (classical) music and popular music.
Your post should contain hyperlinks to your examples and
three 75-word explanations as to why you feel they fit the
forms mentioned
. Since these explanations include why the song is an example
of the type of music assigned to it, mention some of the
characteristics associated with each form.
Here are some abbreviated characteristics of each music form,
as described in Oxford Music Online, which contains more
lengthy descriptions (it is found within the
CSU-Chico library’s Databases A-Z
).

2. Art Music
“The story of American art music chronicles the rise of the
composer in the United States. At no time have such composers
controlled or dominated American concert life, however. Their
historical role has been to take Old World practices as a starting
point and to complement repertories that are chiefly European
with works of their own. Although some 20th-century American
composers have opened up fresh artistic territory, art music in
America, even into the later years of the 20th century, has
continued to revolve around the performance of European
classics.”
Folk Music
“This concept has been defined and developed in multiple ways
by collectors, scholars and practitioners, within different
geographical locations and in different historical periods.
Widely used in Europe and the Americas, it has been used both
covertly and overtly in the construction and negation of
identities in relation to class, nation or ethnicity and continues
to be the source of controversy and heated debate. At its root lie
questions about the identity and identification of the ‘folk’, the
delimitation of musical repertories, how these repertories are
transmitted and the assessment of sounds.”
Popular Music
“A common approach to defining popular music is to link
popularity with scale of activity. Usually this is measured in
terms of consumption, for example by counting sales of sheet
music or recordings. Another common approach is to link
popularity with means of dissemination, and particularly with
the development and role of mass media. It is true that the
history of popular music is intimately connected with the

3. technologies of mass distribution (print, recording, radio, film
etc.); yet a piece that could be described as ‘popular music’
does not cease to be so when it is performed live in public, or
even strummed in the amateur’s home, and conversely it is clear
that all sorts of music, from folk to avant garde, are subject to
mass mediation. A third approach is to link popularity with
social group – either a mass audience or a particular class (most
often, though not always, the working class). In the first case,
the theory is usually ‘top-down,’ portraying the group as
undifferentiated dupes of commercial manipulation; this tends
to accompany pessimistic scenarios of cultural decline. In the
second case, the theory is ‘bottom-up’, representing the group
as the creative source of authentic (as opposed to ersatz)
popular music; this tends to accompany populist scenarios of
leftist opposition."
Other definitions
You are likely to use Google to further investigate what exactly
constitutes these musical forms. Wikipedia’s discussion on
folk music
,
art music
, and
popular music
are helpful.
Finding the music
To find examples of each of these, you are welcome to use
Google or another search engine. Your search terms may be
broad (“art music example”) or narrow (“Beethoven”) but in
either case, attempt to verify that the song is properly titled.
One means of doing this is to search for the song title and see if
other similar or identical examples of the song exist online. If
so, you’re most likely listening to a correctly labeled

4. performance.
Defining the music
I expect you to associate your example with a musical form to
the best of your ability, and you will receive full credit if you
meet all assignment requirements. You will find that not even
scholars agree on the essential characteristics of these three
types of music, so the main thing is to try your best. You might
think about it this way: After reading about and listening to the
different forms, consider what you believe the essential
characteristics to be. Then, tell me how your example fits that
criteria.