new age music
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WHAT IS NEW AGE MUSIC?
A genre of music intended to create:
• Artistic Inspiration
• Relaxation
• Optimism.
WHAT IS IT USED FOR?
• Yoga
• Massage
• Meditation
• Reading as a method of stress management
• To create a peaceful atmosphere in their home
HOW IS IT MADE?• Electronic forms
• Sustained synth pads or long sequencer-based runs
• Acoustic forms
It features instruments like
• Flutes
• Piano
• Acoustic Guitar
• Non-Western Acoustic Instruments
HOW IS IT MADE?
• Vocal arrangements were initially rare Now it features
• Native American
• Sanskrit
• Tibetan-influenced chants
• lyrics based on mythology such as Celtic legends.
WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
• A religious or spiritual movement that developed in Western nations during the 1970s.
• The movement is characterized by a holistic view of the cosmos, a belief in an emergent Age of Aquarius
• Emphasizes on self-spirituality and the authority of the self, a focus on healing (particularly with alternative therapies), a belief in channeling, and an adoption of a "New Age science"
WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
• After the political turmoil of the 1960s, many activists in North America and Europe became disillusioned revolutionary political ideologies.
• Some began searching for a new system that gave special weight to consciousness, ecology, personal and spiritual development, community empowerment, and global unity
HOW DID IT EVOLVE
• On Valentine's Day in 1987, Los Angeles rock radio station KMET changed to a full-time new-age-music format with new call letters KTWV, branded as The Wave
• Management told the station employees to refer to The Wave as a "mood service" rather than a "radio station".
HOW DID IT EVOLVE
• DJs stopped announcing the titles of the songs to maintain an uninterrupted mood,
• Listeners had to call a 1-800 phone number to find out what song was playing.
• News breaks were re-branded and referred to as "wave breaks".
HOW DID IT EVOLVE• Most major cable television networks launched new
age channels like "Soundscapes" on Music Choice.
• By 1989, there were over 150 small independent record labels releasing new-age music
• New-age music was carried on hundreds of commercial and college radio stations in the U.S.,
• Over 40 distributors were selling new-age music through mail-order catalogs.