At GROM Audio, we really love music. That is what has driven us to develop car kits to access hand-held 
devices to your car stereo system more efficiently and safely. It is also why we developed smart-phone apps like the AALinQ Music Player, a safe and driver-centric app designed for you to listen to your favorite artists while on the road.
This why we have recently started to create some of our own playlist at SoundCloud for your enjoyment!
We welcome you to join us as we dig deeper into the history of 20th century pop music . We decided to create the series of the playlists that will cover the development and progression of popular music in the 20th century.
- October Playlist: 1920s & 1930s
Featuring the emergence of 20th Century Blues, the Dominance of Jazz and the Romanticism of Show-Tunes - November Playlist: 1940s & 1950s
Featuring Jazz as the Mainstream Sound of America, the Rise of the Blues, and the Birth of Rock & Roll - December Playlist: 1960s & 1970s
Featuring Blues Inspiring Mainstream American music, the Rise of Rock & Roll, and Emergence of Soul/R&B - January Playlist: 1980s
Featuring the Birth of Rap/HipHop, Rock & Roll Hairbands, Modern Jazz, R&B Mainstream dominance - February Playlist: 1990s & 2000s
Featuring the Mainstream Appeal of Rap/HipHop, the Rise of an Alternative Sound to Rock & Roll, and Jazz in the New Millennium.
For the month of October, we have collected a great introduction to the wonderful world 20s and 30s hot dance bands and musicians. The big band era which dominated the 1930s music scene incorporate jazz into a more palatable format but did so while integrating other forms popular music in their sets. The 1930s Jazz became the mainstream music particularly with young people on the campuses of American colleges and high schools. Slowly but surely, Jazz became the mainstream music for all ages.
Louis Armstrong, the most influential Jazz musician, began his individual music career in the 1920th.
Swing and Charleston are widely danced across America and outside of US. The Charleston was first composed by James P. Johnson, and hold its popularity for an entire decade. Swing Era started around 1935 and held its popularity until the late 1940th. The swing was later revived in the other forms such as gypsy swing, swinging pop and others. Swing style is incorporated in the works of several 21st century musicians.
Blues became a part of the popular American music in the 1920th. The classic female Blues singers of that times include Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. In the 1930th the pure form of Blues was replaced by so-called Swing Blues.