One of the earliest examples was the proliferation of jazz and later blues across America. ... The introduction of the electric guitar is significant as its roots lie as a European instrument of Middle Eastern descent, developed from the Lute and Oud. ...
The advent of sound in the late 1920's stimulated the production of screen musicals (allowing for sound - voice and music- to be synchronized with on-screen physical action), so much so that the first film 'talkie', The Jazz Singer (Crosland 1927), was a musical. ... A genre's iconography consists of recurring symbolic images that can carry meaning from film to film' (Bordwell and Thompson Film Art: an Introduction 1997). ...
Assignment With detailed reference to a number of examples, discuss the extent to which contemporary musical genres exploit, adapt and extend musical structures, styles and techniques of the past Response Introduction Contemporary music is any music that is written in the present day. ... Western Popular music is using the same "vocabulary " of scales and chords as Classical music constructing melodies and chord progression using them in very similar ways, has spread in popularity throughout the world, both on its own and hybrid styles such as jazz and world music. ...