Special Guests: An Interview With "Switched on Pop" (Part 2)

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🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Peter and Adam continue their interview with Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding from Switched on Pop in today's episode.Links From This Episode:Dive into the world of pop music and learn about the song craft that goes into writing great pop tunes with the Switched on Pop podcastCheck out Nate and Charlie's new book Switched on Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why It Matters for more information about critical listeningTake a look at Nate Sloan's opinion piece written for the New York Times: The Glorious Return of FunkWant to hear what Nate, Charlie, and the staff at Switched on Pop are listening to? Have a listen to their Spotify playlistToday's Open Studio Live Events (All times in EDT):1:00 PM - Adam's Daily Guided Practice Session (for Members Only)8:00 PM - Peter Martin hangs with trumpet master Sean Jones on YouTubeFor the rest of this week's calendar, follow this linkIn light of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, we understand that money is tight for a lot of people right now. That's why we've decided that for the duration of this crisis, we'll be running a Choose What You Pay campaign at Open Studio. Choose whichever course you want and then let us know how much you're willing to pay - that's it. For more info, click this link.Interested in more music advice? Go here to browse our catalog of jazz lessons and courses available for purchase. And be sure to check out our All Access Pass - every course from Open Studio on every instrument.Let us know what you think by leaving a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, or head over to our YouTube channel.Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	What else we got?
0:14.5	Okay, so can we talk a little bit about funk?
0:16.4	Okay, so you guys, you, okay, Nate, you did a great piece for, it was actually an opinion piece, right, for the New York Times that was about the funky break of, and it was a great multimedia situation that the New York Times did.
0:32.7	And we'll put a link to this below if it's still up, which I imagine it is in the archives.
0:36.4	But it was really just about, you know, kind of connecting back to the origins of it, but up which I imagine it is in the archives but it was really just about
0:37.9	you know kind of connecting back to the origins of it but a little bit about the resurgence of funk
0:42.9	and pop music and how it came about and it was you know you broke down you know the stuff on
0:47.0	the Jonas brothers and you talked about I think the Bruno Mars and how that kind of opened the
0:53.0	door and stuff but how do you guys see see what's currently happening in pop music, especially like mega hits
0:59.3	and like how much is that actually being talked about what that connection is and where
1:03.8	do you guys see that going?
1:05.0	Well, I think it's worth pointing out here that one thing that was sort of missing from our
1:08.7	previous conversation that will take us to maybe a little bit about funk is that jazz, of course, was at one point pop music, right?
1:15.8	And so I think one of the things that's happening at any given moment is that as much as pop music is trying to maybe push boundaries and find new ways of talking about how it feels to be a young person, the music
1:30.5	that is primarily the music is targeted to. It's often simultaneously looking forward and
1:36.7	looking back and digging on the past, especially that we live in an era with so much
1:42.2	accessibility to content and that reference and nostalgia is such a
1:47.2	big part of art making broadly. In music, we hear a lot of throwback to funk music. And I think
1:55.2	we can even hear in a lot of sort of emerging contemporary hip-, really thick, complex, jazzy chords with
2:05.0	great, nasty, sharp elevenths on them. And it might not be the kind of jazz comping that,
2:11.7	you know, my pal Nate here would do in a jazz gig, but it's drawing on all those different languages. And there is a
2:19.8	great scene of hip-hop producers here in L.A. that had started to look back to Parliament and other
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