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Trot (music)
Korean music genre
Not to be confused with Trotto (dance music).
Trot (Korean: 트로트; RR: teuroteu) is a genre of Korean popular music, known for its use of repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections. Originating during the Japanese occupation of Korea in the first half of the 20th century, trot was influenced by many genres of Korean, Japanese, American, and European music.[1]
Trot has been around for almost 100 years and its distinct singing style has been continuously evolving. Trot music developed in rhythms during Japanese colonial rule. After the liberation of the Korean peninsula and the Korean War (1950-1953), artists such as Lee Mi-Ja, Choi Sook-ja, Bae Ho, Nam Jin, Na Hun-a, Joo Hyun-mi and many others helped to make trot popular. With the rise of K-pop from the 1990s onwards, trot music lost some popularity and was viewed as more old-fashioned. However, from the 2000s onwards, young trot singers such as Jang Yoon-jeong, Hong Jin-young, K-pop singers such as Super Junior-T, Daesung, MJ and Lizzy, renewed interest in the genre and popularised it among young listeners.[2]
Although the genre originated before the division of the Korean peninsula, it is actually now mainly sung in South Korea; the associated po
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This essay is part of a Counterculturalists installment commissioned by AAWW to honor the life and legacy of Fred Ho, the radical composer and organizer who passed away in April 2014 after an eight-year battle with cancer. See our introductory post for a full list of contributions.
The full version of this essay was originally published in Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 7, 1999.
At the age of 14, I acquired a second-hand baritone saxophone from my public school band and began seriously to investigate African American music, especially its more radical and “avant-garde” forms, the so-called Free Music of the 1960s. I searched for a creative expression that would give voice to my exploding radicalism, my hatred of oppression and my burning commitment to revolutionary struggle.
It was the music of little-known composer Calvin Massey in particular (as performed and recorded by Archie Shepp) that had a major impact on me. Massey’s extended suites, such as “The Black Liberation Movement Suite” (which he wrote for fundraising concerts for the Black Panther party), strongly appealed to me, with their thematically epic historical scope, Fanonic titles (e.g., “The Damned Don’t Cry”), soulful melodies, complex and rich harmonies, Afrocentric rhythms (i.e., more African-in
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