Answer:
The similarities between Brill Building pop and folk music in the early 1960s is that Both folk music and Brill Building pop were crafted to appeal to specific age
groups.
While the difference is that Brill building pop musics focus on idealized romance and adolescent anxieties, only rarely exploring more mature themes but folk musics focus on addressing issues that concerned less fortunate members of society and advocated social change in the society
Folk genres appeal to It's individual markets as 1) rural and slow to change, not urban and dynamic; (2) continually varied, with no definitive version; (3) simple, straightforward, and plain; (4) transmitted orally, not through formal training or writing; and (5) focused more on group sharing than on individual expression.
Brill building pop or sounds genres appears to it markets to have been the center of the American music industry that dominated the pop charts in the early 1960s.
Explanation:
Brill Building (also known as Brill Building pop or the Brill Building sound) is a subgenre of pop music that took its name from the Brill Building in New York City, where numerous teams of professional songwriters penned material for girl groups and teen idols during the early 1960s.
While folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations (folk process), music associated with a people's folklore or music
The major similarities between them is that Both folk music and Brill Building pop were crafted to appeal to specific age groups.
While the difference between them is that Folk music and the artists singing it addressed issues that concerned less fortunate members of society and advocated social change toward what was considered leftwing political ideals.
Folk music has a non-commercial sound and character, it is essentially music for regular people, performed by regular people. While The music conceived at the Brill Building was more sophisticated than other pop styles of the time, combining contemporary sounds with classic Tin Pan Alley songwriting. Its lyrics focused on idealized romance and adolescent anxieties, only rarely exploring more mature themes.
Folk music arose in societies not yet affected by mass communication and the commercialization of culture. It was originally shared and performed by an entire community — not by a special class of expert performers — and was transmitted by word of mouth. This is entirely different from Brill building pop where musics is performed by Experts and a special set of people.
Both genres appeal to their individual markets in such ways
Folk music - During the 1950s, the growing folk-music crowd that had developed in the United States began to buy records by older, traditional musicians from the Southeastern hill country and from urban inner-cities. Small record labels, such as Yazoo Records, grew up to distribute reissued older recordings and to make new recordings of the survivors among these artists. This was how many urban white American audiences of the 1950s and 60s first heard country blues and especially Delta blues that had been recorded by Mississippi folk artists 30 or 40 years before.
Folk genres appears to it's market as 1, rural and slow to change, not urban and dynamic; (2) continually varied, with no definitive version; (3) simple, straightforward, and plain; (4) transmitted orally, not through formal training or writing; and (5) focused more on group sharing than on individual expression.
The appropriation of folk music for political ideas also existed. folk songs became a means to express nationalist sentiment.
Brill building pop or sounds genre dominated the American charts in the period between Elvis Presley’s army enlistment in 1958 and the onset of the British Invasion in 1964.
It is considered to have been the center of the American music industry that dominated the pop charts in the early 1960s.
The writers of Brill Building pop understood the teenage idiom and wrote almost exclusively for a youth audience. Teen idols Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka (who teamed with Howard Greenfield), Gene Pitney, and Bobby Darin also had careers composing Brill Building pop. On the other hand, Aldon writer King went on to achieve stardom as a singer-songwriter in the 1970s.
By the early 1960s, the teen music craze was sweeping the United States, causing record labels to turn to the Brill Building songwriters for a constant stream of new hits. Many of these hits came from a small number of songwriting duos. The husband and wife team Goffin and King (Jerry Goffin and Carole King), for example, wrote a string of hits beginning in the early 60s that includes 'The Locomotion', 'One Fine Day', and 'Up on the Roof.'
