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		<title>What is Punk Rock?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the world was dancing the hustle and singing together with Abba, small groups of rebels, some calling themselves the Ramones, the Sex Pistols and the Clash were shaking things up in their own regions with something that they called rock &#8216;n roll, but the rock writers called &#8220;punk rock.&#8221; punk was the opposite of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- @@3.4.3766 --><p><a href="http://www.tastemusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/The+Clash.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-75" src="http://www.tastemusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/The+Clash-300x226.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="226" /></a>While the world was dancing the hustle and singing together with Abba, small groups of rebels, some calling themselves the Ramones, the Sex Pistols and the Clash were shaking things up in their own regions with something that they called rock &#8216;n roll, but the rock writers called &#8220;punk rock.&#8221; punk was the opposite of all that was favored.</p>
<p> It was fast, stripped-down, machine gun music that stormed in, shot up the place and left just as all of a sudden. The tracks were generally brief and had argumentative, inciting words. Punk music took on the subjects of multinational, politics, despair and unhappiness so frequent in the grunge music that would come along about fifteen years later on.</p>
<p> But punk music made it sound like these folk needed to change the world, not just whine about it. In 1977, punk went countrywide in England, even though it had already sneaked into the U. S. through The Ramones &#8216; first album in 1975. Punk music stayed rather in the background in the U.S. For one or two more years, while in the United Kingdom, it became virtually conventional. When The Clash released London Calling in 1979, they&#8217;d enjoyed a year or two of celebrity in Great Britain, and their Combat Rock album of 1982 with &#8220;Rock The Casbah&#8221; made it to the charts in the U.S. Most punk bands did not go places, but the ones that did ,eg the already mentioned 3 groups, had a big result on the music of their times. Disco died once punk actually came into city. The stage was set for the New Wave bands of the early 1980s. Looking under the punk thirty years down the line, a rock historian can see many musical trends in their youth. The garage-band sounds of punk rock influenced grunge. The experimental side of punk influenced bands like Duran Duran to take some possibilities with instrumentation. Sisters doing it for themselves in punk woke a new wave of girl groups even bands like Courtney Love&#8217;s Hole, or Chicks in Toyland. Some punk music even sounds a little tame nowadays, considering the death metal and speed metal that have come after it. There were lots of punk groups that realized only regional celebrity, but they modified the tastes of listeners who were uninterested in slick, bright, over-produced pop. Once punk music rolled in, it was difficult to ignore.</p>
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		<title>What is Rock Music?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Rock music, often often referred to as &#8220;rock&#8217;n'roll&#8221; is a sort of music that became popular in the 1950s in America and Europe. Rock music is based on older musical styles , for example the rhythm and blues music originated by Afro-American performers like Chuck Berry and Tiny Richard, with a heavy concentrate on [...]]]></description>
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<p>Rock music, often often referred to as &#8220;rock&#8217;n'roll&#8221; is a sort of music that became popular in the 1950s in America and Europe. Rock music is based on older musical styles , for example the rhythm and blues music originated by Afro-American performers like Chuck Berry and Tiny Richard, with a heavy concentrate on guitar, drums, and dynamic vocals. One of the earliest and most famed performers during the early days of rock music was Elvis Presley, who surprised the world with his suggestive dancing and strong music. He became a rapid phenomenon, and led the way for lots of other rock music performers over the years to come. In the 1960s, the Beatles were another exceedingly successful and favored rock music group, also electrified by rhythm and blues songs and by the work of other early Brit rock music performers ,eg Cliff Richard. Over time, rock music has branched out into a wide selection of styles. Folks rock music , for example that made very popular by Bob Dylan in the 1960s, frequently featured acoustic guitars and socially conscious words, many with anti-war sensibilities. Hallucinatory rock music ,eg that played by the Thankful Dead, Pink Floyd, and the Doors, featured regularly dissonant music that was influenced significantly by the utilisation of drugs like LSD.</p>
<p>Progressive rock music bands , for example the Moody Blues, Rush, and Yes, experimented with a large range of instruments, and regularly included improvisational musical solos that would last for ten or maybe twenty mins.Rock music in addition has led the way for other music forms ,eg heavy metal, which features extreme guitar sound and heavy distortion.Some of the earliest bands that might be catalogued as heavy metal are Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.</p>
<p>Both bands began in the mid-1970s. Their heavy kind of rock music has lead the way for other heavy metal bands, including Metallica and Megadeth. Today, the term &#8220;rock music&#8221; is used to refer to a good range of musical forms, including anything from soft pop to heavy metal. Rock music has fundamentally become a default term for any musical style that doesn&#8217;t mechanically fit into another class , for example RB, country, or classical. The form has changed noticeably since the times of Elvis Presley, but the term &#8220;rock music&#8221; can still refer to his songs as simply as they may make reference to more contemporary bands like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.</p>
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		<title>Pop Rock</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop rock has been characterized as an &#8220;optimistic assortment of rock music represented by artists like Elton John, Paul McCartney, The Everly Bros, Rod Stewart, Chicago, and Peter Frampton.&#8221; by contrast; music reviewer George Starostin outlines it as a subgenre of pop music that utilises familiar pop songs that are mostly guitar-based. Striating disagrees that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- @@3.4.3766 --><p><a href="http://www.tastemusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/41203221_elton_john_pa.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-67" src="http://www.tastemusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/41203221_elton_john_pa.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="245" /></a>Pop rock has been characterized as an &#8220;optimistic assortment of rock music represented by artists like Elton John, Paul McCartney, The Everly Bros, Rod Stewart, Chicago, and Peter Frampton.&#8221; by contrast; music reviewer George Starostin outlines it as a subgenre of pop music that utilises familiar pop songs that are mostly guitar-based. Striating disagrees that almost all of what&#8217;s historically called &#8216;power pop &#8216; falls into the pop rock subgenre.</p>
<p>He claims the lyrical content of pop rock is &#8220;routinely secondary to the music.&#8221; Critic Philip Auslander disagrees the excellence between pop and rock is more significant in the States than in Great Britain. He claims in America, pop has roots in white crooners like Perry Como, while rock has roots in African-American-influenced forms like rock&#8217;n'roll.</p>
<p>Auslander points out that the idea of pop rock, which mixes pop and rock is at chances with the standard conception of pop and rock as opposites. Auslander and several students like Simon Frith and Grossberg disagree that pop music is frequently showed as an inauthentic, ruthless, &#8220;slickly commercial&#8221; and formulaic kind of entertainment. By contrast, rock music is typically proclaimed as an authentic, sincere, and anti-commercial kind of music, which stresses songwriting by the vocalists and bands, instrumental virtuosity, and a &#8220;real connection with the audience&#8221;. Simon Frith&#8217;s research into the history of preferred music from the 1950s to the 1980s has been criticised by B.J. Moore-Gilbert, who disagrees that Frith and other students have over-emphasized the task of &#8220;rock&#8221; in the history of preferred music by naming every new idiom using the &#8220;rock&#8221; suffix. Therefore when a folk-oriented musical style developed in the 1960s, Frith terms it &#8220;folk rock&#8221;, and the pop-infused styles of the 1970s were called &#8220;pop rock&#8221;. Moore-Gilbert claims this approach unfairly puts rock at the peak, and makes each other influence become an add on to the central core of rock.</p>
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		<title>What is Indie Rock Music?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term &#8220;indie rock&#8221; is short for independent rock, and alludes to a class of music in which many artists are on tiny independent labels or are unsigned, in opposition to being signed to large labels. Some artists, like Death Taxi For Cutie, are now signed to famous labels, yet are still thought to be [...]]]></description>
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<p>The term &#8220;indie rock&#8221; is short for independent rock, and alludes to a class of music in which many artists are on tiny independent labels or are unsigned, in opposition to being signed to large labels. Some artists, like Death Taxi For Cutie, are now signed to famous labels, yet are still thought to be indie rock artists.</p>
<p> Indie rock is a fairly unclear term, and can be used to outline a good variety of different bands and musicians. However, generally, indie rock musicians have an exceedingly strong do it yourself ethic, and don&#8217;t change their sound to fit preferred trends. Indie rock artists are typically played in heavy revolution on varsity radio stations, so this sort of music is frequently known as &#8220;varsity rock.&#8221; Some of the earliest indie rock and roll bands who met popular commend on campus stations were REM and ten thousand Maniacs. Many early indie rock artists came from Britain, including the Smiths, the Cure, and the Stone Roses. These artists barely, if ever, made an appearance on the Poster advertisement favored music charts. But university stations frequently assembled their own catalogues of the most well liked songs, frequently featuring these artists. Though musicians played on school rock stations didn&#8217;t always make massive amounts, they usually had robust fan bases among a younger crowd that are unswerving to this very day. Today, there are plenty of varying styles of indie rock music.The low-fi style, epitomised by bands like Sonic Youth and Pavement, features an unpolished sound and frequent distortion.</p>
<p>Artists like Devandra Bernhardt and Joanna Newsom, who perform experimental folk music, are labeled as &#8220;freak folk.&#8221; Artists like Belle and Sebastian, who play bouncy, often acoustic music, are called &#8220;twee pop.&#8221; New sub-branches of the indie rock scene are always developing. There&#8217;s a specific way of living regularly linked with folks who hear indie rock. Many of those folks, who frequently dress in unique vintage clothes, are known as hipsters. Many towns have huge indie rock scenes, especially NY, San Francisco, and L. A. , amongst others. In such towns, the local independent rock and roll bands have extremely powerful followings, which helps them to grow into other areas. Though some bands that were once said to be indie rock are now quite successful , for example the Shins and Death Taxi For Cutie, most indie rock and roll bands are still below the radar and have to struggle to make a living with their music.If you like an indie rock band&#8217;s music, it is critical to support them by legally buying their music, attending their shows, and advising them to your mates when possible.</p>
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		<title>Abba Break Up</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABBA hasn&#8217;t officially claimed the end of the group, but the group has for some time been considered melted. Their last public performance together as ABBA was on the English Television program The Late, Late Breakfast Show, 11th December 1982. In Jan 1983, Agnetha started recording sessions for a solo album, as Frida had successfully [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- @@3.4.3766 --><p><a href="http://www.tastemusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/r268746_1126895.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-59" src="http://www.tastemusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/r268746_1126895-300x197.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="197" /></a>ABBA hasn&#8217;t officially claimed the end of the group, but the group has for some time been considered melted. Their last public performance together as ABBA was on the English Television program The Late, Late Breakfast Show, 11th December 1982. In Jan 1983, Agnetha started recording sessions for a solo album, as Frida had successfully released her album Something&#8217;s Going On some months earlier. Bjrn and Benny started song writing sessions for the musical Chess, and ABBA was postponed meanwhile. In interviews, Bjrn and Benny denied the split of ABBA (“Who are we without our women? Initials of Brigitte Bardot?&#8221;) And Frida and Agnetha kept saying in interviews that ABBA would come together for a new album continually during 1983 and 1984.</p>
<p>Internal struggle between the group and their boss escalated and the group sold their stock in Polar Music during 1983. With this, the foursome didn&#8217;t come together in public till all 4 members were brought together at the Swedish premiere of Mamma Mia! On four July 2008. In a chat with the Sun, Telegram, following the premiere, Bjrn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson confirmed that there was nothing that would lure them back on stage again. &#8220;We won&#8217;t ever appear on stage again&#8221;, Ulvaeus asserted. &#8220;There’s simply no incentive to re-group. Money isn&#8217;t an element and we&#8217;d like folk to recollect us as we were. Young, exuberant, full of energy and aspiration. I recollect Robert Plant saying Led Zeppelin were a cover band now because they cover all of their own stuff. I suspect that hit the nail squarely on the head. &#8220;Nonetheless on 3rd Jan 2011, Agnetha, who has been long said to be the most reclusive member of the group and potentially also the serious obstruction to any reunion, raised the chance of reuniting for a one off engagement. She confessed that she hasn&#8217;t yet brought the concept up to the other 3 members.</p>
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		<title>What is Classical Music?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Classical music, precisely outlined, means music produced in the western world between 1750 and 1820. This music included opera, chamber music, choral pieces, and music requiring a full orchestra. To most nonetheless, classical music alludes to all the above types of music inside most time periods before the twentieth century. Classical music in its limited [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- @@3.4.3766 --><p><a href="http://www.tastemusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BBC-Scottish-Symphony-Orchestra.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-54" src="http://www.tastemusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BBC-Scottish-Symphony-Orchestra-300x100.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="100" /></a>Classical music, precisely outlined, means music produced in the western world between 1750 and 1820. This music included opera, chamber music, choral pieces, and music requiring a full orchestra. To most nonetheless, classical music alludes to all the above types of music inside most time periods before the twentieth century. Classical music in its limited definition incorporates the works of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. From Mozart, a massive range of pieces offer us an opportunity to enjoy. Mozart wrote symphonies, music for quartets and quintets, chamber orchestra pieces, choral pieces, piano concertos, and whole operas. In total, he wrote over six hundred musical pieces. He&#8217;s probably best known for his opera, The Wizardry Flute. Most also recognise Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, as well as a bunch of his symphonies and concertos. Classical music wouldn&#8217;t be quite the same without Beethoven, who is especially famous for his symphonies. Beethoven&#8217;s 6th symphony is most recognised due to its pastorale, a chunk of music utilized in the Disney film Fantasia. The achingly attractive Moonlight Sonata is also Beethoven. Beethoven wrote just one opera, Fidelio. His genius rests in his symphonies and piano concertos, and some Beethoven must be in the catalogue of anyone that loves classical music. Haydn has traditionally been called the daddy of classical music. His work in this age forms the foundation of influence for others who wrote classical music.Ironically, though he is thought of as the progenitor of classical music, he&#8217;s less familiar to most audiences than the composers discussed above.</p>
<p>His Symphony no. 94, The Surprise Symphony, is among his famous works. Classical music in the wider definition inspires such composers as Bach, who predated the more rigidly outlined classical music age and is more rightly classed in the Baroque period. Vivaldi, maybe best remembered for The 4 Seasons is also of the Baroque period. Handel&#8217;s Messiah is well-known to the numerous who take part in sing-alongs in the Yuletide season. The Romantic Period, which follows straight after the classical period, is famous for its emotive qualities. Mahler and Sibelius stand out and are familiar to most. Wagner is maybe the most frequently recognised of the Romantic composers, his work stormy and grand, and his many operas still performed frequently today. Classical music may also refer to the local and folk music of any country. The styles alter seriously relying on available instruments. As an example, the classical music of Indonesia, with its utilisation of the gamelan, is hugely dissimilar from what most would consider classical music of the western world. People customs in other states may appear more influential to western classical music. Musicians of the baroque and classical periods frequently changed their works from folk music.</p>
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		<title>Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jackson five and Early Career:Michael Jackson is among the most successful and influential pop recording artists in history. Born in 1958, he commenced his career as a member of the Jackson five recording for Motown with 4 of his bros. They hit one on the pop singles chart with &#8220;I Desire You Back&#8221; in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- @@3.4.3766 --><p><a href="http://www.tastemusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Jackson-5.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-50" src="http://www.tastemusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Jackson-5-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a>The Jackson five and Early Career:Michael Jackson is among the most successful and influential pop recording artists in history. Born in 1958, he commenced his career as a member of the Jackson five recording for Motown with 4 of his bros. They hit one on the pop singles chart with &#8220;I Desire You Back&#8221; in 1969. It was followed by 3 more successive one hits. The group&#8217;s recognition faded in the mid 1970&#8242;s, after moving to the CBS record label and calling themselves simply the Jacksons, they solidly hit the charts in the latter 1970&#8242;s and early 1980&#8242;s.</p>
<p>Michael Jackson Becomes an Adult Artist With &#8216;Off the Wall&#8217;:</p>
<p>Michael Jackson hit one on the pop singles chart as a solo artist in 1972 serenading a rat with the title song from the flick Ben. He did not near the head of the charts again till 7 years on with the release of the album Off the Wall in 1979 produced by Quincy Jones. It was at the same time a last gasp of disco and an RB classic that heralded the 80&#8242;s. The album topped at three on the album chart, sold over 7,000,000 copies and included 4 top ten pop singles.</p>
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		<title>Music and Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Music technology is the appliance of technology ,eg PCs and software, to the musical humanities. Whether or not it is the utilization of sequencer and modifying software or electronic musical devices, musical technology and its definition expands as technology expands. Music technology is often referred to as sound technology, but while these 2 fields are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- @@3.4.3766 --><p><a href="http://www.tastemusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/schools-btec.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-46" src="http://www.tastemusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/schools-btec-300x150.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="150" /></a>Music technology is the appliance of technology ,eg PCs and software, to the musical humanities. Whether or not it is the utilization of sequencer and modifying software or electronic musical devices, musical technology and its definition expands as technology expands. Music technology is often referred to as sound technology, but while these 2 fields are similar, they also are massively different. Music technology encloses the composition, recording, and playback of music, while sound technology may only enclose the production of different sounds. Many universities, tech faculties, and schools offer study programs in music technology for music majors.</p>
<p>In these programs, scholars can find out about technical and systematic applications as well as study acoustic science, programming, music speculation, and business courses related to the music biz. Scholars can expect to learn digital multi-track recording, MIDI technology, digital sound processing and modifying, recording methodologies and more. Careers and fields that make use of an education in music technology include studio production and recording, performer / composer, education, sales, and design. Because music technology is a mix of music and technology, newbies or those studying it professionally need a solid experience of both. An capability to read music and play a conventional musical instrument as well as a sound understanding of PCs are beneficial ability sets for folk considering a music technology programme of study. Examples of software employed in music technology include Logic and ProTools. As technology advances, it finds its way into all kinds of musical applications. For those that are creative and possess musical aptitude as well as PC talents, the possibilities are limitless.New sounds and styles of music are made everyday using music technology and the big range of options it provides. By mixing a synthesizer, acoustic guitar, recording software and a P. C. for instance, a breadth of musical stylings can be made.</p>
<p>Music technology and the open file-sharing made feasible by the Net have caused a massive change in how folks discover new music and new artists. Even children, with minimal formal coaching, are finding paths to compose and record their own music and share it with the world from their own basements. With the advancement of technology, music advances as well and so does the capability for creative individuals to find satisfaction as a spare time pursuit or a profession.</p>
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		<title>Pop Vs Popular</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The meaning of pop music is purposefully flexible as the music that is identified as pop is consistently changing. At any specific point in time it could be most simple to spot pop music as that which is successful on the pop music charts. For the last fifty years the most prominent musical styles on [...]]]></description>
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<p>The meaning of pop music is purposefully flexible as the music that is identified as pop is consistently changing. At any specific point in time it could be most simple to spot pop music as that which is successful on the pop music charts. For the last fifty years the most prominent musical styles on the pop charts have ceaselessly modified and developed. But there are some consistent patterns in what&#8217;s identified as pop music.</p>
<p>Pop versus. Popular Music</p>
<p>It is alluring to puzzle pop music with popular music. The New Grove Compendium of Music and Musicians, the musicologist&#8217;s final reference resource, identifies popular music as the music since industrialization in the 1800&#8242;s that is most in accordance with the tastes and interests of the urban middle class. This would include an highly a good variety of music from vaudeville and minstrel shows to heavy metal. Pop music, from another viewpoint, has basically come into use to describe music that developed out of the rock &#8216;n roll revolution of the mid-1950 and continues in a definable trail to today.</p>
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		<title>Modern K-Pop in the U.S.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, tutelage is the universal method for nurturing girl groups, boy bands, and solo artists in the K-pop industry. To promise the high likelihood of success of new talent agencies absolutely subsidize and oversee the pro lives and careers of trainees, frequently spending higher than $400,000 to coach and launch a new artist. Thru this [...]]]></description>
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<p>Today, tutelage is the universal method for nurturing girl groups, boy bands, and solo artists in the K-pop industry. To promise the high likelihood of success of new talent agencies absolutely subsidize and oversee the pro lives and careers of trainees, frequently spending higher than $400,000 to coach and launch a new artist. Thru this practice of tutelage, which regularly lasts 2 years or longer, trainees hone their vocal, learn pro choreography, sculpt and shape their bodies thru exercise, and study multiple languages all while attending college.</p>
<p>K-pop is continuously gaining influence in foreign markets outside of East Asia, most particularly in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. In 2009, the Wonder Girls became the 1st Korean vocalists to put on the U.S. Poster advertisement hot hundred chart with their single, No-one.</p>
<p>In 2010, solo artist Taeyang and girl group 2NE1 started topping varied music charts through the U.S. and Canada with the releasing of diverse albums and hit songs.</p>
<p>In a push to further globalize the genre; K-pop artists are working with talent outside of Korea. In the U.S., Korean artists are touring with groups e.g. the Jonas Brothers and collaborating with well known producers including Kanye West, Rodney Jerkins, and will.i.am.</p>
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