One of the obvious gaps in ‘Top 40′ music is clearly alternative music performances. ‘Top 40 music misses all the good stuff and I chose to focus on dance music as it is very rarely represented in mainstream music charts, and is what I think is good music. When dance songs are in the charts they are usually of poor quality and are manufactured in a studio and not mixed by a DJ.
Dance music traditionally began records were short and mixing was the best way to include sample of different music. The structure of the dance music industry is different to mainstream music industries and is a collection of smaller independent recording companies, which means that the major recording companies have control over what music is played in the ‘Top 40′ music charts.
Overall Team Trout found many examples of alternative music performances and provided a vast body of research to support our ideas including academic research that illustrated the relationship of popular music with individuals, social and cultural implications of popular music and alternative performances.
Music journalism is clearly a difficult job as there are many contributing factors, such as bias, history, education and class that influence what one writes and about which music style. It is often better to seek out non academic research when looking into music as academic research seems to be limiting as academics are often not in the culture or subculture of the music style they are writing about. In saying that, just relying on blogs, magazines, websites or radio to gather information about music is often too bias and designed to appeal to a limited audience.
In conclusion I think it is best to seek out whatever genre is most appealing to the individual. There are many sources to discover alternative music performances as can be illustrated by the blog that we put together in just 3 weeks. ‘Top 40′ music is made for a particular audience and doesn’t promote variety. Alternative music is in my opinion better than the music offered by mainstream music companies that floods ‘top 40′ music charts.
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