ButterflyEffect, BrainBurner, not your genre necessarily but still interesting.
I don't actually know who the big DJ/house/EDM people are on hubski, other than me.
Good point. Music history education in the United States is also heavily skewed towards classical (or at least where I went to school!). There's certainly nothing wrong with continuing to educate our youth on classical music, but I'd like it be a minor part of their education. Instead, like Sweden, I'd prefer there be more of a focus on rock and pop in the post World War II era. Not necessarily because it is better than other types of music, but because it is more relevant to their lives. When I took music history only a week of that school year was dedicated to popular music! The rest was on various periods of classical music...Eventually the aesthetics of Swedish music education came around to strikingly modern sensibilities. In the United States, the repertoire of primary and secondary music education still leans heavily toward the marching band. In Sweden, by contrast, rock and pop have been part of the curriculum in music schools since the 1980s, and in the 1990s courses in mixing and recording became available, too.
Me, me! Yeah, I grew up playing Rachmoninoff, Beethoven, Mozart, this Barber piece was my favorite... 11 years of piano, all with a focus on performing complex pieces. My mom wanted me to. That was pretty much the basis of why I did it. Studying music of any sort will get you some nice neurogenesis going, so I don't think it was a waste of time. Now I'm composing pop-ish electronic stuff. It's a totally different thing, and I'm doing it because I enjoy it. When I was 6 or 7 I jammed Ace of Base on my cassette walkman. Pop was my destiny... or something.big DJ/house/EDM people
I've actually been aware of Max Martin for a while now, though I didn't know he was the producer for Ace of Base. Nor was I aware of most of the other songwriters. This all just shows how manufactured top-40 music is. There is some artistic merit to it, but for the most part it's a factory production of catchy, formulated music. The backstory and history as to all how this happened, however, was a fascinating read. Thanks for sharing this.