Pulse Ruiz’s Musical Mania

Are you like me, a musical maniac? I am constantly listening, reading and playing music for a number of years now. I am relentlessly collecting, learning and reading about music. I am a bit odd in that I like all genres and styles of music like rock, jazz, country, blues, soul, funk, disco, hip-hop, classical, metal, etc.

I have throughout my life been collecting songs, albums, catalogs and genres. I have been through vinyl 45’s and LP’s, cassette tapes, CD’s and now my iPod and iPhone can carry my whole collection over 30,000 songs and counting. It was an expensive habit!

I’ve also collected a lot of music magazine (Vibe, Rolling Stone etc.) and books of all the popular artists in the many genres of the later 20th-century music output. I am fascinated by the many genres with all the differences and the similarities that comprise modern music with all the diversity and sub-genres.

My main focus of music in this blog is the late 20th-century R&B and Rock era, from the end of World War II to the present. In my opinion, this time period is all related to the back-beat of R&B that had slowly been developing out of jazz, swing, country, folk, blues and most directly jump blues and western swing.

In my recent years, I took a scholarly approach to studying the amazing music coming out of the 20th century. I was born in the late 60’s and was fully conscious of music around me as a three-year-old in the midst of the funk period of the early 70’s. I started to learn piano at seven and then drums at ten, started teaching music as a teenager in the 80’s and then gigging as a crazy twenty-year-old in the 90’s.

There always seems to be something so basic yet so elusive about music. Some people have called it a type of magic if you believe that. There is something about how it affects the human condition; how it can change moods, enhance the surroundings, give spiritual experiences and even bring back memories.

My main aim of this blog, if you haven’t guessed by now, is to talk about music as a popular modern phenomenon. I’ve taught music to kids and adults for most of my adult life and am interested in the scientific aspects of music and sound in particular how it affects the human psyche. I would like to turn you on to all the different genres, artists, songs and aspects of modern music that I have been exposed to.

“I’d love to turn you on!” –  Lennon

Hope to hear from you.

Pulse

 

 

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Back Beat Revolution: An analysis of R&B music and its effect on modern late 20th-century pop music.