Presentation Evaluation

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Development of Pop Music From the 1950's to the Present Day.



Looking back on my presentation I have seen some areas which need improving as well as key areas which I managed to do well in, for example how certain artists influenced society and the culture which surrounded music. In this post I am going to evaluate my presentation and notify to myself the important areas where I fell short and didn't analyse and describe these areas in enough detail, or perhaps didn't research enough to explain them greater when questioned.

For example I didn't really expand on genres and how they changed throughout the decades thoroughly enough and I just generalised genres without really talking about all the sub-genres which were influenced from other larger genres. This affected how correct I was and how I was only hovering above the water and wasn't going deeper into the details behind the development of music through the decades. To improve I would give exact details as to what my highlighted bands and artists' main genres were and how we know that they were playing this type of genre by analysing what instruments they use and what effects and styles they add to the instruments.

Another key aspect I missed out on was the way recording had developed through the decades, I don't think I even talked about this, and this is a huge aspect as to how music has developed and how the music sounds. For example in the 1950's there was no technology to record songs in a studio but instead the only recording they could achieve was recording their live gigs, obviously this is a very low standard compared to today's technology as if the band or artist had a bad gig and maybe didn't perform as well as they could that would be the only way people could listen to them. Nowadays there are many new software devices that you can multi-track on and use many new sounds which are completely made by computers and not real instruments which makes the choice of sounds unlimited. 


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