... the rather conservative Sunday Telegraph recognized her as the 'female icon of the age.' Madonna broke into the pop music scene with Holiday in 1983. She helped to link the gap between disco and new wave, and simply defined it as Dance. (Note: Everybody and Burning Up were the 2 initial ... Madonna is definitely a hugely influential artist. "Her ability to move with the times and the strength of her convictions is something unusual in pop music, where things are usually so transient," claims the Aussie Diva Kylie Minogue. "She mixes things that we know and understand and then completely ...

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... be influenced by the different views of the present teenage society. What I"m going to do is try and illustrate a short and accurate history of music and the influence each period has brought; weather it was political, social, psychological or physical , I"m going to try to equally show the positive ... incredibly positive influence. Shortly after this people started feeling the need for something else; something that came into the shape of Disco Music. A simple kind of music that made people want to dance without thinking on the multi-layered lyrical content of the songs. The 80's Unfor...

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... later actions. Then Abba came with their disco tunes and had everyone dancing in disco's until the early hours of the morning. Easy, no-worries music that was there just to make you feel good for a while and forget your problems. Their music still keeps us moving well into the year ... 2002. I think people still need that feeling. The 1980's have been described in a very precise way in Roy Shuker's book "Understanding popular music ... made her debut: Madonna. In 1981, MTV made their first appearance on the television screens of the world and changed the way we see music. The station pr...

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... 70"S New musicians such as Kate Bush and Mike Oldfold opened the road to a more abstract type of music towards the late 70's. Mid-70's were largely a time of consolidation, rather than innovation, however 2 new styles of music emerged - these being disco music and punk rock. Disco music was the first to use electronic instruments on a mass scale - orchestral arrangements became as ordinary as a guitar solo ... . Punk rock had an even greater impact because it came with a unique new style and thousands of independent record labels promoting underground artists. The music scene was split b...

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