Brill Building (genre)
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Cultural origins | Late 1950s – early 1960s, New York City |
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Brill Building (also known as Brill Building pop or the Brill Building sound)
Overview
The music conceived at the Brill Building was more sophisticated than other pop styles of the time, combining contemporary sounds with classic Tin Pan Alley songwriting.[1] Productions often featured orchestras and bands with large rhythm and guitar sections,[2] while lyrics focused on idealized romance and adolescent anxieties, only rarely exploring more mature themes.[8]
The genre dominated the American charts in the period between Elvis Presley's Army enlistment in 1958 and the onset of the British Invasion in 1964.[9] It declined thereafter, but demonstrated a continued influence on British and American pop and rock music in subsequent years.[2][3] The genre introduced the concept of professional songwriters to traditional pop and early rock and roll,[3] and helped to inspire the girl group craze of the era.[10] Other reasons for the style's decline was a tendency among writers and producers to duplicate earlier successes, resulting in many records that sounded the same, as well the changing nature of society and consumer markets.[11] Many of the genre's composers went on to further success as part of the singer-songwriter movement later in the 1960s and 1970s.[12]
List of artists
1960s artists/songwriters
Later artists
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Fontenot, Robert (November 1, 2015). "What is Brill Building Music?". About. Archived from the original on July 7, 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Anon. "Brill Building Pop". AllMusic.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Gulla 2007, p. 366.
- ^ ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ a b Viglione, Joe. "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do". AllMusic.
- ^ Anon. "Sunshine Pop". AllMusic.
- ^ a b Seabrook 2015, p. 51.
- ^ a b c d e f g Hall 2014, p. 39.
- ^ a b "Don Kirshner". The Daily Telegraph. April 18, 2011.
- ^ New York Times 2011, p. 163.
- ^ Hall 2014, p. 38.
- ISBN 9780195373714.
- ^ Auslander 2006, p. 54.
Bibliography
- Auslander, Philip (2006). Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-06868-7.
- Gulla, Bob, ed. (2007). Icons of R&B and Soul: An Encyclopedia of the Artists Who Revolutionized Rhythm. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-34044-4.
- Hall, Mitchell K. (2014). The Emergence of Rock and Roll: Music and the Rise of American Youth Culture. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-05358-1.
- ISBN 978-0-312-64302-7.
- Seabrook, John (2015). The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-24193-8.